From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 22:50:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA04853 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:50:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA04848 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:50:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA12245; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:50:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:50:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: James Hu cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RTM_LOSING In-Reply-To: <199611052133.PAA00238@plethora.cs.wustl.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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