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From: -Vince- <vince@apollo.COSC.GOV>
To: Peter Marelas <maral@webnet.com.au>
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Subject: Re: routing question
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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! =)

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