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Date:      Tue, 5 Nov 1996 15:33:20 -0600 (CST)
From:      James Hu <jxh@cs.wustl.edu>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RTM_LOSING
Message-ID:  <199611052133.PAA00238@plethora.cs.wustl.edu>

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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

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?

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?

I'm running:
FreeBSD 2.2-961006-SNAP #0: Sat Oct 19 18:43:38 CDT 1996

-- James



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