Re: Manually set route keeps reverting to default

[Rich <openbsd64_(_at_)_rbentley_(_dot_)_com>]

This is my point - I'm not running routed, or bgp (actually, I've never heard 
of bgp). The network is not configured by DHCP (everything is setup with 
static IP addresses)

If I look through the task list and disregard any shells, X and other stuff 
that can't (shouldn't !) have anything to do with this, I'm left with...

/sbin/init (unlikely)
syslogd (ditto)
pflogd (scaping the barrel here...)
inetd
cron

...and that is literally it ! Unless inetd or cron are running something that 
I don't know about (I've not changed either since installation). Clearly 
something is responding to the network fault I described and fiddling with 
the routing table, but I have no idea what.

regards,

Rich.

On Tuesday 17 Aug 2004 17:54, you wrote:
> 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?