From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 22 21:02:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA19500 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 21:02:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.uniserve.com (tom@shell.uniserve.com [204.244.210.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA19494 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 21:02:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (tom@localhost) by shell.uniserve.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA21352; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 20:57:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell.uniserve.com: tom owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 20:57:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: Kory Hamzeh cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: routed won't start (fwd) In-Reply-To: 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 Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Kory Hamzeh wrote: > I'm reposting this message because 1) I did not get any replies, and 2) I > forgot to mention that every now and then, routed WILL start up OK. For > example, the last two reboots I did, it worked find. > > Any help would be REALY TREMENDOUSLY appreciated. I need to bring this > machine online by Monday, and unless I can figure out this problem, I'm > afraid it wont happen. > > ----------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- > > I'm running 2.2.2-RELEASE, and I've enabled routed in rc.conf, but it > won't start. During startup, I see the following message: > > writing to route socket: invalid argument > add net default: invalid argument Check the "defaultrouter" item in rc.conf. It should contain just an IP address. It seems to contain something strange now. > However, after the system comes up, I can type "routed -q" and it starts > up without a hitch. I have class C network with a 255.255.255.192 netmask. > > Is this a known problem? Did I do something wrong? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated! Why do you need routed? Often it use can be avoided. It the first think I disable on a server. > Thanks, > Kory > > > Tom