Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:50:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: James Hu <jxh@cs.wustl.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RTM_LOSING Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961106224930.12066Y-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199611052133.PAA00238@plethora.cs.wustl.edu>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, James Hu wrote: > I recently had routed report this to me, and the route.h file tells me > this means the kernel suspects partitioning. Is this network > partitioning, or something else? The precise message was: > Nov 4 19:24:55 plethora routed[59]: punt RTM_LOSING without gateway > Nov 4 19:24:56 plethora routed[59]: punt RTM_LOSING without gateway No clue. > A second question: I thought to myself, why do I even need to run > routed? I have a default route set to the gateway, that should be it, > right? So, I set router=NO in sysconfig rebooted and so far > everything appears to be fine. So, is there a good reason I should be > running routed (in passive mode) anyway? Only if you need it for dynamic routing. If you throw everything at a default gateway, then you don't need it. > A third question: The UNIX System Administration Handbook suggests to > use gated instead, saying that routed is too unreliable. But, FreeBSD > does not include gated by default.. What's up with that? Possibly legal issues. There is a gated port in the ports tree. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSI.3.94.961106224930.12066Y-100000>