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[Ron Irving]

Firstly, I would like to apoligize to anyone I offended from remarks I made the last time I used this service. I make no excuses, and hope you can forgive, (especially Thierry.) It's been a rough beginning to my tenure here.

Now, recently we have begun to implement a new phone system here, (AVVID.) All of HP routers were replaced by CISCO products. Since bringing the new equipment online, the default route on my HP-UX server, (ver 10.20,) has been affected. While the original default route remains, it adds another default route, which points to our webserver. As soon as I route delete the unwanted route, everything is fine, and users can again login across the network. I recently disabled the 'gated' daemon, which would appear to have fixed the problem. Did I do the right thing? Is this only a temporary fix? Any feedback the 'guru's' out there can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanx

Ron Irving

[Rita C Workman]

I don't consider myself a networking guru...but I would ask the simple things.
Like...if you made these changes, did you remember to go back and change the /etc/rc.config.d/netconf ? to ensure on your next reboot that your changes appear...

Like I said, I tend to look at the simple things first.

Regards,
Rita

[Ron Irving]

Thanks, Rita, but I did ensure the netconf file was up to snuff. The addresses of the equipment didn't change, just the equipment itself.

ron

[Berlene Herren · Accepted solution]

Hello Ron,
I would think the question would be, why was gated on? Are you using it now, or was it used previously and not turned off? If you do not need gated and you turned it off, ya did good!

Berlene

[Ron Irving]

thanx, berlene. I don't think I needed 'gated'. The server is NOT a gateway, but routes through the new cisco equipment, (call manager 7750) There has also been some dhcp issues on the pc side of the house, which I don't think is related to my problem, but, who knows??

ron

[Rob Mallard]

:Second attempt posting a reply:

gated is used to allow UNIX systems to act as a router and use dynamic routing protocols (RIP, OSPF, etc) to exchange routing information with other routers. gated can also be used to LISTEN ONLY for route table updates update the routing table on the UNIX box. This may be what is happening in your environment. Check your /etc/gated.conf, it is used to control how gated runs.