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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: routed Date: 27 Jan 1996 21:48:02 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4ee6ii$np9@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3106F4BE.2226@uoguelph.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Matthew Stein <mstein@uoguelph.ca> writes: > A FreeBSD 2.1 box that I run periodically looses it's default route. > Obviously, most network traffic stops, until I add the default route > back. > > I'm beginning to think that I might just remove routed, as I have little > need for RIP packets, as far as I know. Your conclusion seems to be fine. routed kills the default route if it doesn't receive its announcement via RIP periodically. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)