From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 11 09:58:49 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA26483 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 09:58:49 -0700 Received: from iaehv.IAEhv.nl (root@iaehv.IAEhv.nl [192.87.208.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA26477 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 09:58:39 -0700 Received: from oasis.IAEhv.nl by iaehv.IAEhv.nl (8.6.12/1.63) id SAA21377; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 18:58:30 +0200 X-Disclaimer: iaehv.nl is a public access UNIX system and cannot be held responsible for the opinions of its individual users. Received: by oasis (8.6.12/1.63) id SAA01987; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 18:55:35 +0200 From: volf@oasis.IAEhv.nl (Frank Volf) Message-Id: <199509111655.SAA01987@oasis> Subject: Expiring of static routes To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 18:55:34 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1668 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi, We have a network consisting of FreeBSD 2.0 and 2.0.5 machines connected to the world by a FreeBSD 2.0 gateway. All machines have a default route pointing to this gateway; this route is added in the /etc startup files by the "route add default" command. The gateway does (did :-) not announce the default route. Yesterday, the gateway went down for about 15 minutes. When it was booted again, we found to our surprise that all the FreeBSD machines (except for this gateway) had lost the default static route (and hence could not communicate with other systems). We can't think of any other reason for this behaviour than that the default route must have been marked for deletion and eventually has been removed; just like other routes. So, my questions are: 1) is it true that routed expires static routes just like other routes? 2) if so: how to prevent this? if not: has anyone another explanation for this behaviour? Best regards, Frank ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank Volf - Internet Access Eindhoven - Digitale Stad Eindhoven ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- || volf@oasis.IAEhv.nl - use for personal mail || || volf@IAEhv.nl - use for Internet Access Eindhoven related mail || || volf@dse.dse.nl - use for Digital City of Eindhoven related mail || ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IAE Public Access Unix System - Dial +31.40.439436 and login as new. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------