Subj : Re: Binkley
To   : Marcin Gondek
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Thu Jul 05 2001 04:00 pm

Hi! Marcin,

On 04 Jul 01 22:48, Marcin Gondek wrote to Paul Quinn:

 MG>  My route.fe file
 MG> === Begin ROUTE.FE ===
[ ...trim.. ]
 MG> === End ROUTE.FE ===

I'm not a routing expert, but I had a long look at yours and saw some 
redundancy.  Keep in mind that the routing file is read by FE, top-down, so 
that the last statement to mention a node or wildcard will affect its routing.

Here's what I recommend:
=== Begin ROUTE.FE ===
; Other zones routing:
Route-to 2:480/112 1:* 4:* 5:* 6:* 2:*
Route-to 2:2432/200 3:*
; MyZone routing (these are exceptions to the first line):
Route-to 2:467/70 2:460/* 2:4600/*
Route-to 2:467/70 2:461/* 2:4613/* 2:4614/* 2:4615/* 2:4616/*
Route-to 2:467/70 2:462/* 2:4621/* 2:4623/* 2:4624/* 2:4625/* 2:4626/* 2:4627/* 

Route-to 2:467/70 2:463/* 2:4631/* 2:4632/* 2:4633/* 2:4634/* 2:4635/*
Route-to 2:467/70 2:464/* 2:4641/* 2:4642/* 2:4643/* 2:4646/* 2:4647/* 2:4648/* 

Route-to 2:467/70 2:465/* 2:4651/* 2:4652/* 2:4653/* 2:4654/* 2:4655/* 2:4656/*
Route-to 2:467/70 2:4657/* 2:4658/*
Route-to 2:467/70 2:466/* 2:467/* 2:468/* 2:469/*
; MyNet routing:
Route-to 2:480/33 2:480/*
; MyNet exceptions:
Route-to 2:480/112 2:480/112.* 2:481/* 2:482/* 2:484/* 2:48/*
Route-to 2:480/112 2:480/46.* 2:480/58.* 2:480/82.* 2:480/106.*
Route-to 2:480/112 2:480/109.* 2:480/110.* 2:480/115.* 2:480/120.*
Route-to 2:480/112 2:480/125.* 2:480/133.*
Route-to 2:480/127 2:480/127.* 2:480/32.* 2:480/124.* 2:480/130.* 2:480/135.*
; Net 5020:
Route-to 2:5020/1951 2:5020/*
; The parasites<giggle>:
Direct MYPOINTS
=== End ROUTE.FE ===

Have a good look and see what you think.  I would welcome comments from others 
as well.  As I say, I'm no expert, and, I haven't had a lot of experience with 
large routing systems.

As an afterthought: if your echomail is flowing well through Argus, then you 
may be looking for something that isn't supposed to happen.  When FE packs 
either local or in-transit netmail, it will use an existing mail packet if one 
exists already for an up/down-link.  Have you got an arcmail packet viewer like 
InspectA, so that you can view the contents of your outbound arcmail?  Perhaps 
your packed netmails have been packed-up in them, and you're looking for 
newly-created arcmail bundles that aren't supposed to be there.  :-)

Cheers,
Paul.

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