[ale] Routes that fade away...

[Eric Zundel Ayers]

The problem is gated/routed running.  If you are running gated, it
expects to hear a router broadcasting the route occasionally. If it
isn't there, gated erases the route.  
If you are running routed, you need to configure /etc/gateways, I believe.
If you are running gated, the solution is to specify your
interfaces as passive in the gated.conf file.  Here'as an example
gated.conf file.


# Mark interface passive; meaning do not time-out
interfaces {
        interface all passive ;
} ;

# Enable RIP and send RIP updates only if >1 interface is configured
# emulating /usr/sbin/routed
#rip yes ;

# the following clause when uncommented act same as "routed -q" mode; 
# (i.e. quite mode) -- never send RIP update even >1 interface configured.
rip yes
{
        nobroadcast;
} ;

static {
        default         gateway 123.45.67.89  ;
        172.151.32.0    mask 255.255.255.0  gateway 172.18.4.7 ;
};


Millard Wayne writes:
 > I have just set up a RedHat 4.2 internet gateway for our internet
 > connection.  I have aquired a dedicated 33.6 dialup account with a
 > static IP.  It works great....except(you knew this was coming), every
 > couple of hours for no apparent reason the default route to the Net just
 > disappears.  I don't know if this is caused by line noise, just enough
 > to drop the route, but not enough to drop the line, or some other
 > problem.  I am wondering a couple of things.  Has anyone seen this, and
 > is there a way to fix it, and barring that, can I monitor for it some
 > how, and have the route automatically reestablished if a drop is
 > detected.
 > 
 > Thanks in advance for any advice.
 > 
 > Tory,
 > 
 >