Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 03:18:39 -0800 (PST) From: -Vince- <vince@apollo.COSC.GOV> To: Peter Marelas <maral@webnet.com.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: routing question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951115031711.1364M-100000@apollo.COSC.GOV> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951115215237.3313A-100000@iis>
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On Wed, 15 Nov 1995, Peter Marelas wrote: > On Wed, 15 Nov 1995, -Vince- wrote: > > > On Wed, 15 Nov 1995, Peter Marelas wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 14 Nov 1995, -Vince- wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, 14 Nov 1995, Peter Marelas wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 13 Nov 1995, -Vince- wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > > > > > > > I was wondering does anyone know how to advertise the route for a > > > > > > Class C address under FreeBSD? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Run gated, and turn rip on in /etc/gated.conf > > > > > > > > Hmmm, how does gated work and I don't have a /etc/gated.conf or > > > > the man pages for gated... > > > > > > > > > > The linux NET-2-HOWTO explains gated and has an example gated.conf > > > > Hmmm, okay... What does gated do exactly? Since what I want to > > do is for the class C network addresses that needs to route through the > > FreeBSD box, how do we advertise so the routing tables for the rest of > > the net will know how to get to us? Thanks! > > It "routes" :) Simple enough =) > You use the "RIP" (Routing Information Protocol) protocol. > This allows for dynamic routing, where routers talk to each other via UDP, > exchanging information on what networks each router is connected to. > This allow the routing daemon (gated) to update the kernel's routing > tables with information it receives. Hmmm, where does RIP send this information to after the router since I thought it had to reach the net somewhere.. > ie. routes are added and deleted dynamically, so changes in network are > propegated via RIP to other routers. Oh okay... > routed supports RIP only. > gated supports IGP, EGP and RIP. > > You can check to see if a router is advertising the network its attached > to by using ripquery that comes with gated. > > example.. > > jazzy# ripquery 203.8.105.28 > 24 bytes from iris.webnet.com.au(203.8.105.28) to 203.21.35.254 version 1: > 203.8.105.0 metric 1 > > For more information on RIP read RFC1058. Oh okay. Thanks! =) Cheers, -Vince- vince@COSC.GOV - GUS Mailing Lists Admin - http://www.COSC.GOV/~vince UC Berkeley AstroPhysics - Electrical Engineering (Honorary B.S.) Chabot Observatory & Science Center - Board of Advisors Running FreeBSD - Real UN*X for Free! Linda Wong/Vivian Chow/Hacken Lee/Danny Chan/Priscilla Chan Fan Club Mailing Lists Admin
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