Kernel protocol

Hello guys! I would like to ask you what would you think the better practice would be: Can we remove totally the kernel protocol? I thought no but we tested it and it works. Now we have on our linuxbox set the static routes outside bird daemon, where we specify that the caches we have are behind the border routers. Would it be safe to totally remove this from the system configs and only use the Direct protocol as we said yesterday, and rely on the direct protocol that it learns the connected network and the multihop of the caches which reside behind the border routers? Thanks a lot!! Irene -- Irene Lalioti Network Engineer Fondation RESTENA 2, avenue de l'Université L-4365 Esch/Alzette Tel: +352 424409 1 Fax: +352 422473