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Date:      Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:52:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Michael C Cambria <cambria@world.std.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Router Discovery using routed(8)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980410235121.28437k-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199804101917.AA28095@world.std.com>

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On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Michael C Cambria wrote:

> What I don't understand when testing the route discovery client is why I 
> am seeing sendto(224.0.0.2) "No Route to Host" and sendto(224.0.0.9) "No
> Route to Host" messages at boot time (as well as at regular intervals after
> boot.)  What I add a default route to rc.conf and reboot, I don't see these
> messages anymore (even when the default router is to a non-existant 
> gateway.)  So it seems that router discover in routed wants a route to 
> exist to 224.0.0.0
> 
> Doesn't the need to define a route defeat the purpose of router discovery?

224.* is the multicast network.  It may not be set up correctly on your
router(s) but you still have static references in /etc/rc.conf.  Unless
you're using multicast you can ignore these.

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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