From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 12 10:46:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BC9D37B400 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 10:46:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA97F43E3B for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 10:46:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lomifeh@earthlink.net) Received: from joga.local. (bgp586692bgs.jdover01.nj.comcast.net [68.39.202.147]) by mtaout01.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 1.4 (built Aug 5 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H2C00JS66NUHT@mtaout01.icomcast.net> for chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:45:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:45:35 -0400 From: Lawrence Sica Subject: Re: Solaris and Dynamic Routing In-reply-to: <20020912172758.GB91965@blossom.cjclark.org> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: chat@freebsd.org Message-id: <711C773E-C677-11D6-A85D-000393A335A2@earthlink.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.543) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 01:27 PM, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:16:32PM -0400, Lawrence Sica wrote: >> >> On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 12:53 PM, Crist J. Clark wrote: >> >>> Anyone out there know of some good software for doing dynamic routing >>> on Solaris (2.6 to be exact)? It doesn't need to be terribly >>> complicated software, I just need to get some routes off of a >>> neighboring router and onto the Solaris system. >>> >>> I know about gated, but the open source version looks like it hasn't >>> been maintained for a long time now. I'm trying Zebra, but it is >>> technically a "beta" which makes me a little nervous about deploying >>> on an operational network. Both have more up-to-date commercial >>> versions, but we need this yesterday (of course) and I don't want to >>> get tied with a vendor and a bummer product because we grabbed the >>> first thing. >>> >>> Anyone have recommendations? >> >> Solaris does dynamic routing...there is an ndd switch that turns it on >> and off. I normally turn it off heh. Look for /etc/norouter. If >> that is there then dynamic routing is turned off. man in.routed or >> in.rdisc. That works for 7, dont know about 2.6 (it has been ages >> since I have dealt with 2.6) > > Oops, looks like I forgot to mention this. in.routed and in.rdisc are > totally insufficient for our needs. in.routed only talks RIPv1, and we > need at least RIPv2 since we aren't living in the 80's and have VLSM. > in.rdisc is just router discovery. Hey I liked the 80's....I've heard good things about Zebra though. Never used it though. I'll check with my local sun guru see if she has any ideas... --Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message