I'm confused, I don't understand why NOT having a default gateway is a
problem.  The other side of the coin is having hardcoded gateways which
should still work and enhance security.  Or am I going down a merry path?

On Wed, 13 May 1998, Genute, Thomas wrote:

> There are problems with Telnet and problems with NS with PP4.  With NS the
> default gateway stopped working.  If, as defined in NMMGR, the default
> gateway has any reachable network defined other than "@", it is not
> recognized as a default gateway.  NETTOOL has some enhancements such as
> GATELIST, GATEUP and GATEDOWN.  The plus is that when a router went down, it
> is indicated with the GATELIST command.  The minus is that when the router
> came back up, the 3k didn't recognize we manually brought it up with GATEUP.
> The Telnet problems are more insidious. ...