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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!newshub.tc.umn.edu!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Route cloning (disable - how to?) Date: 3 Aug 1996 18:56:03 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 42 Message-ID: <4u07c3$qnk@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4t0g99$pni@mandolin.qnet.com> <31F518A3.2781E494@freebsd.org> <4t41lp$r80@mandolin.qnet.com> <yfgu3uxf84y.fsf@time.cdrom.com> <Dv4oHn.6qu@ottnews.shl.com> <4te4pe$2ts@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4tpfl0$c2b@source.isd.state.in.us> 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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E sapa47@source.isd.state.in.us (Raymond L. Gilbert) wrote: > Please excuse me for the novice question, but... doesn't FreeBSD do > the same thing if you're using routed instead of gated? According to > routed(8) it does that whenever it detects multiple interfaces or a > point-to-point link up. FreeBSD runs by default ``routed -q'' only, and you are being asked in the post-installation configuration menu whether you do want this. (I generally turn it off since i've got a real router setup, with one machine collecting and approving all RIP requests, and properly managing the routes.) Even routed -q is considered a mistake by some (many?) people, but it does less harm in that it never sends RIP annoucements. It is only that this ``used to be so all the time'', since people got used to this lazy routing table management. The router discovery protocol (rdisc) is supposed to be better, but i don't have any experience with it. > wrong with this? What should it do if you're using routed? If you need to _supply_ RIP information (who is listening to it?), you are strongly suggested to run GateD, since it allows a much better control of what is being sent, and what is being accepted. routed believes everything, and (if i'm not mistaken) basically announces everything if requested to do so. > If things "work" with routed, then what sort of advantages can one get > by moving to gated instead? If things already work without routed, nothing. If you need some sort of routing advertisement, you get better control about the RIP annoucements (or even non-RIP protocols at all). -- 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. ;-)