route not in table

[steven Burgess_2]

Hi all

Quick question

Had an issue with a routing table out in dharan over the weekend. Site use x25 and frame relay. x25 soon to be switched off. Currently have the x25 as the default gateway (mainframe connectivity) and frame relay connection to our network via local router(soon to be default gateway)

The entry i have in netconf for the default and secondary route is

ROUTE_DESTINATION[0]=default
ROUTE_MASK[0]=""
ROUTE_GATEWAY[0]=xxx.xx.xxx.xx
ROUTE_COUNT[0]=0
ROUTE_ARGS[0]=""

ROUTE_DESTINATION[1]="net xxx.xx.xx"
ROUTE_MASK[1]=""
ROUTE_GATEWAY[1]=< xxx.xx.xx.x >
ROUTE_COUNT[1]=1
ROUTE_ARGS[1]=""

The routes from netstat

default xxx.xx.xxx.xx U 0 114 x00

xxx.xx.xx.0 xxx.xx.xx.1 UG 2 1098 lan0

I had to logon to the server via the local .1 router to enable a connection to the box. On checking the routing table I had the above routes.

My initial feeling was to remove the route and re add, however i received the message

delete host xxx.xx.x.0: gateway xxx.xx.xx.1: not in table

route add xxx.xx.x.0 xxx.xx.xx.1
route in use

I removed the entry from the netconf file ran net start - route not removed. Attempted to remove manually , same reply. Route not in table. The only way I could remove the route was with a route -f (after re adding route to netconf) then a net start. That resolved the issue.

Any reason why this could happen ?

Thanks in advance

Steve

[Stefan Farrelly · Accepted solution]

The manual route you add in as per netconf is a route add net

but in your message you said you tried to do a delete host gw and you got not in table. To remove it you should do the exact same as the route add net;
route delete net (dont use the hop)

Then you can try manually adding it back in again.

[steven Burgess_2]

Stefan

Yet again, thanks mate.

(twonk)

Have removed the route, logged back on via the router.

net start to pick up the route, all ok. I wonder why i lost the route

Any ideas

Thanks

Steve

[steven Burgess_2]

Stefan

Have checked the rc log and found that after weekly reboot the default gateway was down, thus the rest of the net start script wasn't completed subsequently not adding the secondary route

Cheers

Steve

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Steven

Why do you do a weekly reboot?

Hp-ux does not need it !!


Paula

[steven Burgess_2]

Hi Paula

I new I would get a reply from the 'weekly reboot'

It's part of our housekeeping. Not sure who's decision it was to include it into the full backup schedule. Long time ago , probably before I even knew what a computer was (some still raise that question!!)

Regards

Steve

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Steven

I kant even skpell komputar


LOL

Paula