Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 12:47:10 +0000 From: Jon Zobrist <doug@bluesun.net> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RIP broadcasts.... Message-ID: <35B48DCE.EC4752BF@bluesun.net>
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Hello everyone. I am running FreeBSD 2.2.6 on a machine connected to a 10BT hub, which is then connected to a 10BT switch. I have a machine which dissappears from the internet occasionally.. When it boots up it announces itself and appears in the routing table of the router,, a cisco 75xx Then disappears after a while, stops making broadcasts altogether.. I have read through man pages, and read through the complete freebsd, and talked with various people about it, including my upstream provider. My current temporary solution is to have cron on another machine ping the machine in question every few minutes, this seems to be working, but I don't like this half assed approach.. In talking with several people I discovered that I may need to be running RIP, or something... The question is how do I enable RIP... I don't think I want to be running routed, or gated... but what else would enable me to make RIP broadcasts? In the book, the complete freebsd, in the manual configuration section there is a netstat -r that shows a broadcast section (pg 320) which has an address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff flags are UHLWb Refs 2 I have no such entry in my routing tables. Should i try to add the route? if so what flag indicates it is a broadcast? I have Intel 10/100 NIC, dev/fxp0 Any thoughts would be appreciated... Thanks, Jon Zobrist To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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