Networking Guide
Chapter 5, Configuring Internet Protocol (IP) routing

Routing daemons

Routing daemons

Routing daemons initialize and dynamically maintain the kernel routing table by communicating with daemons on other systems to exchange routing information such as what networks are known by the machine on which the daemon is running. Routing daemons exchange information according to routing protocols. The differences between daemons are the routing protocols each supports. The daemon(s) to run on a machine depend on what protocol(s) is needed. SCO TCP/IP supports three routing daemons: