*BSD News Article 60691


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news
From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: routed
Date: 27 Jan 1996 21:48:02 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
Lines: 17
Message-ID: <4ee6ii$np9@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References: <3106F4BE.2226@uoguelph.ca>
Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3

Matthew Stein <mstein@uoguelph.ca> writes:
> A FreeBSD 2.1 box that I run periodically looses it's default route.  
> Obviously, most network traffic stops, until I add the default route 
> back.
> 
> I'm beginning to think that I might just remove routed, as I have little 
> need for RIP packets, as far as I know.

Your conclusion seems to be fine.  routed kills the default route if
it doesn't receive its announcement via RIP periodically.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)