From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 10 23:53:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA17896 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:53:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA17886 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:52:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA28707; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:52:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:52:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Michael C Cambria cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Router Discovery using routed(8) In-Reply-To: <199804101917.AA28095@world.std.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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