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From: Barrett Richardson <barrett@phoenix.aye.net>
To: Ed Baxter <Ed.Baxter@pii.com>
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Subject: Re: how to stop route redirects
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On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Ed Baxter wrote:

> How can I force freebsd 2.2.5 stable to ignore route redirects? Routed is turned off and
> I tried specifying these routes as static routes but one of our routers sends redirects
> when there is a WAN hiccup and internal traffic gets routed out to the internet
> (default for the router). The static routes also get over ridden by the redirects. The
> redirect would be fine except that when the WAN is back up the freebsd machine never
> changes back. The Corp WAN guy has turned RIP off for the entire WAN so I think my only
> option is to get the Freebsd machine to ignore the redirects. 
> 
> I noticed that even without routed my route table contains "learned" routes and keeps
> growing. Is it possible to turn this behavior off (would probably solve my redirect
> problem). We have Sun Solaris machines that without routed contain only a couple routes
> in their route table and it never changes. I would prefer this behavior.
> 
> Thanks for any help you can give...
> 
> Ed Baxter   
> 
> 

Try running gated. With a config like:

--- cut ---
redirect off;
rip off;
--- cut --

You may want to toss any static routes you have in there. Gated
will monitor the routing socket and attempt to undo any changes
that redirects have done.

-

Barrett



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