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From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Subject: Re: route dropped when WAN goes down
References: <9d1ed006.0308201449.78798644@posting.google.com> <0h88kv03uf3oa1coo3svfkttj8c2hd80o4@4ax.com> <9d1ed006.0308210417.70895556@posting.google.com> <02t9kvg4q53u13ra89jsdr52p6hb4ov0lj@4ax.com> <9d1ed006.0308211321.71d7fc3d@posting.google.com> <9d1ed006.0308211820.7b978859@posting.google.com> 
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 04:57:43 GMT

On 21 Aug 2003 19:20:01 -0700, joe@nall.com (Joe Nall) wrote:

>joe@nall.com (Joe Nall) wrote in message news:<9d1ed006.0308211321.71d7fc3d@posting.google.com>...
>> They are running "route monitor" right now in the hope that it will
>> point to why the routing table is being modified.
>
>Here is their report on /etc/route -n monitor while the route was
>being dropped
>(hand typed):
>
>RTM_CHANGE: change metrics or flags
>len: 136            pid: 0          seq: 0          errno: 0
>
>flags: <GATEWAY, HOSTS, DONE>
>proto:      age: (number varies)
>sockaddres;<DST, GATEWAY>  (MY-IP) (IP2) (IP3)

>Where (MY-IP) is the IP address of my server (the one whose route is
>being dropped).  Any interpretation would be appreciated.

Not much useful there.  What is IP2 and IP3?  Are there two ethernet
cards in this box with ipredirects (IP forwarding) enabled between the
two cards?  My guess(tm) is that the change involved the route between
the two cards (IP2 and IP3).  Otherwise, could you dummy up some IP
addresses instead of variables?  My brain works better without the
symbolics.

>They swear routed is not running.

OK, let's assume that they're right.  (Assumption, the mother off all
screwups).  Any chance that they're running gated instead of routed?
It would also show up in the process table as:
  ps -ef | grep "gated"  (actually in.gated)
See:
  http://osr5doc.ca.caldera.com:457/cgi-bin/man/man?gated+ADMN

Someone has to be running RIP.  So, let's go shopping for the culprit.
Run:
  ripquery -n gateway_IP_address
  ripquery -n local_IP_address
If you get "connection refused" or something similar, it's not running
RIP 2.  Also try the -1 flag in case it's running RIP 1.  Try every IP
address on your LAN.  Devices running either routed or gated will
respond.
  http://osr5doc.ca.caldera.com:457/cgi-bin/man/man?ripquery+ADMN

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