From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 24 23:09:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA15859 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 23:09:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA15854 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 23:09:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA07415; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 23:08:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 23:08:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Andre Albsmeier cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: running routed: Is my printer a router ? In-Reply-To: <199710231919.VAA27038@curry.mchp.siemens.de> 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 Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > > ignore RTM_GET: 192.168.21.92/32 > > > -- 21:49:01 -- > > > RTM_ADD from pid 8022: 192.168.21.92/32 > > > routed: ignore RTM_ADD without gateway > > > > > > The timestamps are axactly the same as in syslog, so it's really > > > 192.168.21.92 who has to do with it. But: The address > > > 192.168.21.92 belongs to a networked printer ?!? > > > > The system is trying to create a host route for that box, which is normal, > > but routed will have nothing of it. If you don't need routed, disable it > > and it will shut up. > > By system you mean the machine routed is running on, right? As far as > I interpret the log, there is something sent from the printer (which is > 192.168.21.92) to the system, which makes it complain. > I have about 70 machine on three NICs on the system running routed (PCs, > MACs, HPs, SGIs, Suns, HP-Printers, and of course, FreeBSD machines), > but 192.168.21.92 is the only Kyocera Printer. Is it possible that just > the Kyocera is doing something strange about what routed complains? Your computer is probably trying to contact the printer and the routing is wrong. What does ifconfig -a and netstat -rn report? > Unfortunately, I use routed to distribute my routes so I don't have > to create static routes on my other machines. Maybe, this effect > would be gone when running gated, but I still haven't had time > to figure out how to configure it... OK. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major