Jason.
Could you send me a basic ospf gated.conf file?
Jason Scherbarth wrote:
> Doh!
>
> Forgot one thing. Make sure you are using the latest version of
> GateD(in the RH 5.1distribution). Until recently Linux GateD had
> problems with listening to the multicast route information (HELLO
> packets), no trouble sourcing it... I've got GateD set up and running
> OSPF on about 10 RH 5.0 boxes for compatibility testing with our OSPF
> implementation and they've worked flawlessly.
>
> js
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Scherbarth
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 3:04 PM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: RE: RFC linux as router
> >
> > Essentially dead on. Small edits below...
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: William T Wilson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 2:32 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: RFC linux as router
> >
> > On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, dreamwvr wrote:
> >
> > > linux box as a router? Would like to ideally get intimate with
> > using
> > > bgp and ospf using red hat as a router over 100 base T. Is
> > this
> > > different than setting up two nics and doing route add and
> > default route?
> >
> > No. bgp and ospf are routing protocols. When you run a routing
> > protocol,
> > you typically have at least three network interfaces (and 64MB
> > of RAM :) )
> > in your system. One or more for your local network(s) and at
> > least two
> > for connectivity to the rest of the Internet.
> > [Jason Scherbarth] Depends on what you are doing...
> > Suppose you have two uplinks to the Internet - one through MCI,
> > and one
> > through Sprint, say. You needs some sort of protocol by which
> > you can
> > determine which sites should be reached through the MCI link,
> > and which
> > sites should be reached through the Sprint link. Obviously
> > sites
> > connecting to MCI or Sprint will go through that link, but sites
> > on, say,
> > UUNet will have to go through one or the other. The routing
> > protocols are
> > how the routers determine which sites go through which links.
> > All the
> > routers on the Internet maintain a database of, essentially, how
> > "expensive" it is to connect to any other site through any
> > particular
> > link. Every router simply sends the data through the cheapest
> > link.
> >
> > BGP is the protocol used internet-wide for such calculations.
> > [Jason Scherbarth] BGP is essentially a Cisco proprietary
> > routing protocol. GateD *does* work with BGP, but you'll find that
> > alot of other vendor's network equipment does not. OSPF is more open
> > in the sense that many more vendors will support it. OSPF is
> > used in other WAN situations. For example, suppose you have a
> > large WAN
> > with many ISDN lines coming in, and several terminal servers for
> > them.
> > Each of those terminal servers functions as the gateway for all
> > networks
> > attached to them over an ISDN link. But the networks on the far
> > side of
> > the ISDN connections don't know when they'll connect or who
> > they'll get
> > when they dial in. So the terminal server uses OSPF to tell the
> > other
> > systems in the network that he is the current gateway to that
> > particular
> > subnet. But the rest of the Internet doesn't care, because once
> > it gets
> > to your WAN, that's all it needs to know. Therefore BGP is used
> > at your
> > router to connect to the rest of the internet, and OSPF is
> > typically used
> > internally within an organization.
> >
> > Cisco routers excel at this sort of thing. gated can do it too.
> >
> > > I suppose i will have to do a arp -s ext interface mac address
> > 1
> >
> > I don't think so. You shouldn't need to fool with the arp table
> > at all.
> >
> > > but am really not sure if there is any more to it. Hmmm...
> > also do
> > > i have to do a make config to rebuild the kernel to do this?
> > Been
> >
> > You should. Any time you do anything serious you should rebuild
> > the
> > kernel. :) In particular look at the "optimize as router, not
> > host"
> > compile-time option.
> >
> >
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