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- From: heisen@zeta.numerik.uni-duesseldorf.de (Henner Eisen)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: KA9Q RIP problems
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 19:32:33 GMT
- Organization: Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf
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- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <1k6o0hINNf8q@unidus.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>
- References: <1k3nm6INNlpb@uwm.edu>
- Reply-To: heisen@numerik.uni-duesseldorf.de (Henner Eisen)
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- In article <1k3nm6INNlpb@uwm.edu>, hardiman@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Paul V
- Hardiman) writes:
- |> I'm having problems getting ka9q to recognize RIP broadcasts.
- [...]
- |> form 129.89.6.255 and 129.89.21.255. ka9q's outgoing RIP
- |> messages are broadcast to the same addresses and are handled
- |> OK by other routers on the subnets. According to ka9q traces
- |> the incoming RIP messages are formatted correctly. But when
- |> I issue the RIP STATUS command, ka9q reports that there have
- |> been no incoming RIP messages.
- [...]
-
- Common problems with ka9q that might cause RIP (and some other services)
- not to work properly:
-
- 1. Depending on your local broadcast addresses and subnet masks, the
- address resolution from IP-level to MAC-level broadcast addresses
- might not work. This can be fixed by the "arp add ..." command.
-
- Certainly, this is not causing your problems because
- - outgoing RIP broadcasts are received correctly *and*
- - ka9q's trace function indicates incoming RIP broadcasts.
-
- 2. You did't start the RIP server. Incoming RIP packets are only
- processed if the "start rip" command has been input. Otherwise,
- ka9q will only broadcast its own static routing tables.
- Note that, when compiling ka9q, a flag in the configuration
- file must be set in order to support the RIP server.
- Just input "start rip". If it fails you need another net.exe
- which was compiled with the RIP server enabled.
-
- 3. ka9q only accepts RIP messages from explicitly specified hosts.
- Specify each hosts by the command "rip accept <address>", where
- <address> is the other routers IP address.
-
- Hope that will solve your (and other's) problem.
-
- Henner Eisen, Angewandte Mathematik,
- Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany
- e-mail (RFC-822): heisen@numerik.uni-duesseldorf.de
-