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echo: net_dev
to: Jasen Betts
from: mark lewis
date: 2002-07-17 17:27:44
subject: proposed new nodelist

JB> Hmm, does anyone know what's an "RVIA" flag for and where is
 JB> it documented?

it is a failed experiment... it was started to store routing information in
the nodelist... RVIA is Route VIA... there are additional ones, too... and
no, i'm not sure where they ever were documented... they started as
something tossed out in FTSC_PUBLIC (AIR) and a few jumped on it and added
it to their nodelist entries as a userflag... userflags are experimental,
right? in any case, others then jumped on that idea and added a method of
scanning for those flags to generate netmail routing charts... sadly, none
of those who fought (in Z1) about this even _use_ the information in their
routing charts... the biggest idea was to try to get netmail routing as
close to the hands of the destination system as possible rather than going
on as had been where things just kinda flowed whichever way and the netmail
might reach it's destination...

)\/(ark

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