From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 17 17:48:14 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA19116A4CE for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 17:48:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86FAD43D31 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 17:48:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 30157 invoked from network); 17 May 2005 17:48:09 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 17 May 2005 17:48:09 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 63A9E2A; Tue, 17 May 2005 13:48:08 -0400 (EDT) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Jim Pazarena References: <4288EA8B.1070703@ccstores.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 17 May 2005 13:48:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4288EA8B.1070703@ccstores.com> Message-ID: <44is1h217r.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: routed daemon X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 17:48:14 -0000 Jim Pazarena writes: > Can the routed daemon co-exist with a CISCO router which, by default, > also responds to routing requests? > > The reason I ask, is that I accidentally installed routed, and it > was running, and my whole network came to a grinding halt, until > I de-activated routed. I had not set up *any* configuration file > or anything other than installing the port (by accident). > > So did this halt my system because I had no configuration file, or > because routed cannot co-exist with (in this case) my telco provided > CISCO gateway router? Certainly they *can* co-exist, but in your case there is no reason for them to do so. Your routed doesn't know about any routes that the Cisco doesn't. This is also (most likely) where the problem came from; your routed was probably advertising routes that went through the Cisco, causing the Cisco to pick up those routes through the FreeBSD box, causing a routing loop. In ordinary routing situations, "split horizon" would keep this from happening, but because the default route was configured statically, routed couldn't detect this.