On 12/05/07, Dan Shimshoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have two questions: 1) Suppose I will enable routing (RIPv2). Is it a good thing to do ? What are the benefits of doing so? By doing so, does that mean that the routing tables in the kernel will be updated from time to time by the user-space routing protocols (RIP) ?
No benefits and according to the Wikipedia article about it, there are possible risks. You have to understand what the routing protocol really means - it's a way for a network node to learn about "next hop" to forward packets to. In other words - it's a dynamic way for the router to alter its routing tables. The routing tables are what the router actually uses to decide about routing packets and they are usually setup via DHCP when the modem boots and don't change after that. I'd hazard a guess that 99% of the nodes on the Intenet don't need routing protocols and can't even run them, including routers which have only one (or even multiple, in some cases) "up links". Your case also falls in that category - what kind of new routes can your modem learn? All its traffic will have to go through its "default route" anyway. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing_Information_Protocol about RIP. 2) I want to hack the code. It should be GPL. Did anybody have a clue where
I can get it ?
Google for that uname string. It turned up with many results for me. BTW - you better change your admin password on that box, especially now that you advertised that you use the default one. Even if the box is configured not to allow admin connections over its WAN interface there are possible ways to route traffic to it through broken clients behind it. Cheers, --Amos
