From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 16 10:35:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA07863 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 10:35:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.dcfinc.com (freebie.dcfinc.com [138.113.2.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA07842 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 10:34:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freebie.dcfinc.com (8.8.3/8.8.3a) id KAA04462; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 10:34:03 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199709161734.KAA04462@freebie.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: route To: uros.juvan@arnes.si (Uros Juvan) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 10:34:02 -0700 (MST) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <97Sep16.104727mest.4310-143+154@tosc.arnes.si> from Uros Juvan at "Sep 16, 97 10:47:17 am" Reply-to: chad@dcfinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm running 2.2.1 and I just noticed strange routes in my routing table. > netstat -nr reported things like: > gateway UGHDM 0 4119 ep0 > ^ - Created dynamically (by redirect) > > This and similar routes apeared in the routing table by themself even without > routed being ran. You've received an "ICMP Redirect" message. They will generate a route without you running any kind of routing daemon. The redirect message is issued by a router when it believes there is a better route to your destination than itself. The router may know that because of his own use of routing protocols, or the network manager may have loaded static routes into the router. The redirect message says, "I'll handle this packet for you, but in the future you'd be better off sending packets to this host over there." -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL22) Brother, can you paradigm? 602-953-1392 chad@dcfinc.com chad@anasazi.com crl22@aol.com DCF, Inc. - 14523 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254