A default route appears every reboot

A default route appears every reboot

Post by Brian S. Craigie - Unix SA - NEC - Scotla » Sat, 07 Sep 1996 04:00:00



Every time I reboot some machines, they all obtain an annoying default route
that I don't want.

I've grepped every file in /etc and sub-dirs looking for the hostname or IP
address which appears as the default route, but not found it.

Any ideas where it could be getting it from?

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A default route appears every reboot

Post by Ling Wan » Sat, 07 Sep 1996 04:00:00



Quote:

> Every time I reboot some machines, they all obtain an annoying default route
> that I don't want.

> I've grepped every file in /etc and sub-dirs looking for the hostname or IP
> address which appears as the default route, but not found it.

> Any ideas where it could be getting it from?

grep whatever /etc/init.d/*

 
 
 

A default route appears every reboot

Post by Brian S. Craigie - Unix SA - NEC - Scotla » Thu, 12 Sep 1996 04:00:00




writes:

Quote:> Every time I reboot some machines, they all obtain an annoying default route
> that I don't want.

> I've grepped every file in /etc and sub-dirs looking for the hostname or IP
> address which appears as the default route, but not found it.

> Any ideas where it could be getting it from?

Thanks to everybody who responded - most by e-mail.  The answer would appear to
be to _add_ a default route in /etc/defaultrouter so that the machine doesn't go
looking for one at boot time.  This tidies up the routing table very nicely.

Thanks again.

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Brian Craigie

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A default route appears every reboot

Post by Brian S. Craigie - Unix SA - NEC - Scotla » Thu, 12 Sep 1996 04:00:00





>> Every time I reboot some machines, they all obtain an annoying default route
>> that I don't want.

>> I've grepped every file in /etc and sub-dirs looking for the hostname or IP
>> address which appears as the default route, but not found it.

>> Any ideas where it could be getting it from?

> grep whatever /etc/init.d/*

Thanks, but as I pointed out in my original posting:-

Quote:>> I've grepped every file in /etc and sub-dirs

Thanks anyway.

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Brian Craigie

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A default route appears every reboot

Post by Mike Harrels » Thu, 12 Sep 1996 04:00:00







>>> Every time I reboot some machines, they all obtain an annoying default route
>>> that I don't want.

>>> I've grepped every file in /etc and sub-dirs looking for the hostname or IP
>>> address which appears as the default route, but not found it.

>>> Any ideas where it could be getting it from?

>> grep whatever /etc/init.d/*

>Thanks, but as I pointed out in my original posting:-

>>> I've grepped every file in /etc and sub-dirs

It probably assigned it during the install.  Did you setup an
/etc/defaultrouter file to override the installation default?

-- mikeh

 
 
 

A default route appears every reboot

Post by Jason Haine » Fri, 13 Sep 1996 04:00:00


Quote:>> Every time I reboot some machines, they all obtain an annoying
>> default route that I don't want.
> Thanks to everybody who responded - most by e-mail.  The answer
> would appear to be to _add_ a default route in /etc/defaultrouter
> so that the machine doesn't go looking for one at boot time.

I have also found that it is a *good idea* to specify this route using
an IP address rather than a host name.

--
Jason Haines            
Software Engineer CRC for ACSys
http://pastime.anu.edu.au/jason/

 
 
 

A default route appears every reboot

Post by Brian S. Craigie - Unix SA - NEC - Scotla » Sat, 14 Sep 1996 04:00:00




Quote:> It probably assigned it during the install.  Did you setup an
> /etc/defaultrouter file to override the installation default?

> -- mikeh

No if you don't specify a default router in /etc/defaultrouter, the S69inet
script goes and finds one apparently by broadcasting on the network effectively
"who is a router"

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Best Regards,

Brian Craigie

Unix Sys Admin

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