Re: gated/Linux loopback problems

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
27 May 1998 14:59:16 +0200


Hello Thorsten,

In article <199805191402.QAA04779@weber.uni-paderborn.de>,
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@weber.uni-paderborn.de> wrote:
>After starting gated (The /etc/gated.conf contains only rip yes;),
>I get the following:
>
>kukuk@bering [src] >>route -n
>Kernel IP routing table
>Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
>127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 1 lo
>131.234.214.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0 U 0 0 25 eth0
>0.0.0.0 131.234.214.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
>
>gated changed 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 to 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255. The problem
>now: RPC Broadcast will not longer work.

A simple way to fix this is to add a static route to 127.255.255.255 with
the loopback address as gateway. This is the static route section from
my gated.conf:

static {
default gateway 195.64.65.53 preference 140 retain ;
host 127.255.255.255 gateway 127.0.0.1 preference 140 retain;
} ;

Seems to work fine.

Mike.

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