From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 2 22:11:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA17753 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:11:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA17745 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA26269; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:11:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:11:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Louis-Philippe Alain cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail routed[54]: punt RTM_LOSING without gateway In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970930205808.009064c0@boisfrancs.qc.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Louis-Philippe Alain wrote: > Hi, > I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.2 for about 4 months on this machine. The only > thing I cahnged recently was in the RADIUS... So I guess it's not the cause > of this message: > > Sep 30 15:03:54 mail routed[54]: punt RTM_LOSING without gateway > > I have this error frequently in my messages log file. What does that mean? > I've never get this error message before and I didn't touch anything > related with routed since I receive it... And I don't get this error > message on a regular basis... Weird... A search of the mailing list archives (and by consequence my past responses :-) ) turns up some interesting info. The RTM_LOSING message comes from the TCP stack when the retransmit timer kicks in. It sends out a message that thinks that the net may be partitioned. But if no gateway is specified, then the message is moot. Routed can understand these and will make a notation if a faulty RTM_LOSING comes through. They can be safely ignored. But if it is really bugging you and you have a static routing system (send everything to this router), then define the default gateway and disable routed in /etc/rc.conf. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major