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- From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
- Subject: Re: Need help with routed
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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Organization: University of California, Irvine
- Lines: 36
- Date: 17 Aug 92 23:10:51 GMT
- References: <Bt596M.H1G@adasoft.ch>
-
- In article <Bt596M.H1G@adasoft.ch> jw@pan.adasoft.ch (Jamie Watson) writes:
- >Our customers network consists of a number of sub-nets, and they
- >have routers running to handle traffic between them. Obviously,
- >I need to get this routing information on our Ultrix systems.
- >I have started /etc/routed, and then checked the routing tables
- >with "netstat -r"; the tables seem to be built correctly, but after
- >a few minutes, *all* the entries are deleted again. From reading
- >routed(8) about a thousand times, I gather that the tables are
- >built on startup because routed sends a broacdast query which the
- >routers respond to. I further suppose that the reason they are
- >then being erased is because the routers are not periodically
- >broadcasting updates. However, I have talked to the people who
- >are supposed to be "responsible" for this net, and they claim
- >that the routers are working correctly - i.e. they are not
- >expected to broadcast updates.
-
- If all your routers know how to route packets between the subnets (which
- they should), you needn't do anything other than set a default route on
- your systems that point to the routers:
-
- /etc/route add default router-ip-address-or-name 1
-
- This leaves the burden of figuring out how a packet goes from point A to
- point B to the routers and the people that maintain them (where it should
- be) instead of you.
-
- We use default routes on all our systems (many DEC, Sun, HP, etc) and have
- no problems with it. Our routers (cisco) are setup to broadcast to each
- other what subnets they know about and then each router can figure out
- where to send a packet.
-
-
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