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Graham Orndorff

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Jun 8, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/8/96
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Hello,

I am running gated 3_5 beta 3 on an AlphaServer 1000 running DigitalUnix
3.2D1. this machine is acting as a router, with 10BaseT ethernet on one side
and FDDI on the other.

I have gated configured to broadcast the route via RIP of the FDDI ring to
the ethernet interface. When gated is first started everything works
perfectly. Then about 3 minutes later it gives this error:

gated[483]: if_rtdown: DOWN route for interface fta0 192.150.2.2/255.255.255

(where fta0 192.150.2.2 is the FDDI interface).

The FDDI when I check it, I can still ping machines on the FDDI interface
from the alpha machine, just the alpha machine at this point stops routing,
and stops broadcasting the route for the FDDI.

Does anybody out there have a clue as to why this would be happening?

As an added hint: before we brought the 192.150.2 net up on FDDI, it was on
standard ethernet, and the gated configuration worked fine.

Thanks for any help,
-graham

Acee Lindem

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Jun 12, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/12/96
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Graham Orndorff <gorn...@mv.us.adobe.com> writes:

> I have gated configured to broadcast the route via RIP of the FDDI ring to
> the ethernet interface. When gated is first started everything works
> perfectly. Then about 3 minutes later it gives this error:
>
> gated[483]: if_rtdown: DOWN route for interface fta0 192.150.2.2/255.255.255
>
> (where fta0 192.150.2.2 is the FDDI interface).
>
> The FDDI when I check it, I can still ping machines on the FDDI interface
> from the alpha machine, just the alpha machine at this point stops routing,
> and stops broadcasting the route for the FDDI.
>
> Does anybody out there have a clue as to why this would be happening?

Graham,

GateD will time out interfaces on which you are running an IGP
and you don't receive any IGP packets. Consult the GateD html
documentation for the full story.

Anyway, I'd guess that no other boxes on the FDDI interface are advertising
RIP and you're interface is timing out. Add the line below to the top of
your config to prevent this from happening:

interfaces { interface fta0 passive; };

To keep any interface from timing out, specify:

interfaces { interface all passive; };

Acee

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