From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 13 07:07:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA28614 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 07:07:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from snoopy.lucentmmit (smtp.Lucentmmit.com [38.160.171.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA28608 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 14:07:09 GMT (envelope-from MCambria@lucent.com) Received: by smtp.Lucentmmit.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id <2BP7WNZV>; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 10:20:20 -0400 Message-ID: <813D2854D1B0D1118236006097177581036ACE@smtp.Lucentmmit.com> From: "Cambria, Mike" To: "'Doug White'" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Router Discovery using routed(8) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 10:20:19 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >224.* is the multicast network. It may not be set up correctly on your >router(s) but you still have static references in /etc/rc.conf. Unless >you're using multicast you can ignore these. But I can't ignore these. The router solicitations sent by routed never hit the wire. Thus a router is never discovered. The route table has just 2 entries, 127.0.0.0 and the one for the local LAN. It seems that router discovery client is using the route table to find the "next hop" when it should not be doing so for multicast. When I use broadcast in lieu of multicast (/etc/gateways configured with bcast_rdisc) things work. When I use gated for router discovery client (with multicast) I do *not* see the problem I described with routed. MikeC Michael C. Cambria Lucent Technologies Member of Technical Staff Bell Labs Innovations Voice: (978) 287 - 2807 300 Baker Avenue Fax: (978) 287 - 2810 Concord, Massachusetts 01742 Internet: mcambria@lucent.com -----Original Message----- From: dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu [SMTP:dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu] Sent: Saturday, April 11, 1998 2:53 AM To: Michael C Cambria Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Router Discovery using routed(8) On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Michael C Cambria wrote: > What I don't understand when testing the route discovery client is why I > am seeing sendto(224.0.0.2) "No Route to Host" and sendto(224.0.0.9) "No > Route to Host" messages at boot time (as well as at regular intervals after > boot.) What I add a default route to rc.conf and reboot, I don't see these > messages anymore (even when the default router is to a non-existant > gateway.) So it seems that router discover in routed wants a route to > exist to 224.0.0.0 > > Doesn't the need to define a route defeat the purpose of router discovery? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message