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Date:      Fri, 24 Oct 1997 23:08:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: running routed: Is my printer a router ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971024230607.7229N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199710231919.VAA27038@curry.mchp.siemens.de>

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On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Andre Albsmeier wrote:

> > > ignore RTM_GET: 192.168.21.92/32
> > > -- 21:49:01 --
> > > RTM_ADD from pid 8022: 192.168.21.92/32
> > > routed: ignore RTM_ADD without gateway
> > > 
> > > The timestamps are axactly the same as in syslog, so it's really
> > > 192.168.21.92 who has to do with it. But: The address
> > > 192.168.21.92 belongs to a networked printer ?!?
> > 
> > The system is trying to create a host route for that box, which is normal,
> > but routed will have nothing of it.  If you don't need routed, disable it
> > and it will shut up.
> 
> By system you mean the machine routed is running on, right? As far as
> I interpret the log, there is something sent from the printer (which is
> 192.168.21.92) to the system, which makes it complain.
> I have about 70 machine on three NICs on the system running routed (PCs,
> MACs, HPs, SGIs, Suns, HP-Printers, and of course, FreeBSD machines),
> but 192.168.21.92 is the only Kyocera Printer. Is it possible that just
> the Kyocera is doing something strange about what routed complains?

Your computer is probably trying to contact the printer and the routing is
wrong.  What does ifconfig -a and netstat -rn report?

> Unfortunately, I use routed to distribute my routes so I don't have
> to create static routes on my other machines. Maybe, this effect
> would be gone when running gated, but I still haven't had time
> to figure out how to configure it...

OK.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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