Summary

Well, there you have it. Everything you could possibly want to know about utilizing the public gated routing daemon was covered in this chapter. This tool, as well as others such as zebra (http://www.zebra.org/), allows you a great amount of control over how your router behaves, including the ability to sit back and just configure some basics and not bother with the higher end issues if you don’t need them.

Now that we’ve gotten familiar with one of the popular unicast routing daemons, in Chapter 6, “Inside The Multicast Kernel 2.2.x Daemons,” we tackle some of the multicast routing daemons used in the 2.2.x kernel series.

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