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Date:      Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:51:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:      William Wong <wwong@wiley.csusb.edu>
To:        dan@dpcsys.com (Dan Busarow)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: About routed
Message-ID:  <199709251951.MAA12424@wiley.csusb.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.UW2.3.95.970925100613.24874C-100000@cedb> from "Dan Busarow" at Sep 25, 97 10:08:17 am

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> On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, William Wong wrote:
> > I came across this recently and was wondering what it might be.  Some
> > machines have this message and some don't even though the systems are
> > configured pretty much the same.  Could somebody enlighten me on this?
> > 
> > 
> > Sep 23 17:36:41 coyote2 routed[53]: sendto(ep0, 224.0.0.2): No route to host
> 
> That's a multicast address.  So the machines seeing this message 
> don't have a static route entered for multicast addresses.
> 
> See route_multicast in /etc/sysconfig or rc.conf
> 
> Dan
> -- 
>  Dan Busarow                                                  714 443 4172
>  DPC Systems / Beach.Net                                    dan@dpcsys.com
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> 
> 

So why is it that one machine would see this address and the other one
won't even though both machines are on the same segment of the network?
Does this mean that one machine is being specifically targeted and sent
that particular address? I hope the above sentences make sense to ask. :)


Both machines are running freebsd-stable and mrouted is not enabled in
rc.conf for both machines.

-- 
William T. Wong
  Phone:   (909) 880-7281
  email:   wwong@wiley.csusb.edu




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