Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 10:27:58 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: Lawrence Sica <lomifeh@earthlink.net> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Solaris and Dynamic Routing Message-ID: <20020912172758.GB91965@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <61F2CF8F-C673-11D6-A85D-000393A335A2@earthlink.net> References: <20020912165350.GA91965@blossom.cjclark.org> <61F2CF8F-C673-11D6-A85D-000393A335A2@earthlink.net>
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:16:32PM -0400, Lawrence Sica wrote:
>
> On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 12:53 PM, Crist J. Clark wrote:
>
> >Anyone out there know of some good software for doing dynamic routing
> >on Solaris (2.6 to be exact)? It doesn't need to be terribly
> >complicated software, I just need to get some routes off of a
> >neighboring router and onto the Solaris system.
> >
> >I know about gated, but the open source version looks like it hasn't
> >been maintained for a long time now. I'm trying Zebra, but it is
> >technically a "beta" which makes me a little nervous about deploying
> >on an operational network. Both have more up-to-date commercial
> >versions, but we need this yesterday (of course) and I don't want to
> >get tied with a vendor and a bummer product because we grabbed the
> >first thing.
> >
> >Anyone have recommendations?
>
> Solaris does dynamic routing...there is an ndd switch that turns it on
> and off. I normally turn it off heh. Look for /etc/norouter. If
> that is there then dynamic routing is turned off. man in.routed or
> in.rdisc. That works for 7, dont know about 2.6 (it has been ages
> since I have dealt with 2.6)
Oops, looks like I forgot to mention this. in.routed and in.rdisc are
totally insufficient for our needs. in.routed only talks RIPv1, and we
need at least RIPv2 since we aren't living in the 80's and have VLSM.
in.rdisc is just router discovery.
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| cjclark@jhu.edu
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