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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 18:41:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Chael Hall <nowhere@chaos.taylored.com>
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Subject: Re: routed[126]: punt RTM_CHANGE without gateway
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On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Chael Hall wrote:

> My machine has two Ethernet cards and is acting as a gateway between two
> networks.  Can anyone tell me what this error means?  It happens all of
> the time...
> 
>      Oct 25 19:53:53 chaos routed[126]: punt RTM_CHANGE without gateway

Someone is trying to change a route and the info is malformed, ie it's
missing the gateway argument.  This implies that someone is trying to
change you default route.  It's more FYI than a true error.

I've seen this happen if you have CAP or Netatalk installed.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major