Mostly it's too slow to be useful. DHCP can tell you about the
default gateway address, and HSRP/VRRP can be much faster to find the
active gateway.
>Broadcast intensive and not natively implemented in the most common o/s
>would be my guess.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kane, Christopher A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 6:01 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: IRDP, why isn't it used more often [7:8425]
>
>
>I've read several times that IRDP allows hosts to discover "gateway"
>routers. But every time I read that it's followed by the statement that it's
>seldom used. Does anybody know why? It seems like it would come in handy for
>failover purposes.
>
>Chris
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