Re: Manually set route keeps reverting to default

[Henning Brauer <lists-openbsd_(_at_)_bsws_(_dot_)_de>]

* Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd_(_at_)_2004_(_dot_)_snew_(_dot_)_com> [2004-08-17 21:06]:
> Quoting Rich (openbsd64_(_at_)_rbentley_(_dot_)_com):
> > I have seen a similar problem to this posted previously, but not quite the 
> > same. Also the description of my setup is quite long and I suspect it might 
> > actually be irrelevant to the actual problem, but here goes anyway...
> ...
> > PROBLEM
> > ------------
> > Now the problem....
> > 
> > This all works fine except that now and again, the route I added on #1 
> > spontaneously disappears and gets replaced with....
> > 
> >    192.168.1.1   192.168.0.64
> > 
> > ...ie - it decides to move the route that I have set up for #2 to the 
> 
> Routes don't "spontaneously change".  Something makes a change.
> And you need to identify it and address it.
> 
> routed/bgp and other routing daemons run, talk to other devices
> and tweak the routing tables.  That's their purpose.  They aren't
> on by default.
> 
> dhcp clients will be told by dhcp servers to set a default route
> and will do that.  Changing the default route.
> 
> So what's changing your routing table?

"route monitor" helps finding...

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