Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:52:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Michael C Cambria <cambria@world.std.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Router Discovery using routed(8) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980410235121.28437k-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199804101917.AA28095@world.std.com>
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On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Michael C Cambria wrote: > What I don't understand when testing the route discovery client is why I > am seeing sendto(224.0.0.2) "No Route to Host" and sendto(224.0.0.9) "No > Route to Host" messages at boot time (as well as at regular intervals after > boot.) What I add a default route to rc.conf and reboot, I don't see these > messages anymore (even when the default router is to a non-existant > gateway.) So it seems that router discover in routed wants a route to > exist to 224.0.0.0 > > Doesn't the need to define a route defeat the purpose of router discovery? 224.* is the multicast network. It may not be set up correctly on your router(s) but you still have static references in /etc/rc.conf. Unless you're using multicast you can ignore these. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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