gated is shutting down NIC eth0

[Frank Steinmann]

Hallo,
running Tru64 5.1 on DS10. In the last few days
the gated went down my NIC eth0 and produced an
entry in daemon.log:
gated[986257]: EVENT Delete UpDown tu0 194.45.179.31/255.255.255.128 -> 194.45.179.127
gated[986257]: rip_target_list: supplying updates to 1 interface
gated[986257]: KRT SENT type DELETE(2)flags (0) error 3: No such process
gated[986257]: KRT SENT dest 194.45.179 netmask 255.255.255.128
gated[986257]: KRT SEND DELETE 194.45.179 mask 255.255.255.128 router 194.45.179.31 flags <>0: No such process
gated[986257]: KRT SENT type DELETE(2)flags GW STATIC(802) error 3: No such process
gated[986257]: KRT SENT dest 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0
gated[986257]: KRT SEND DELETE 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0 router 194.45.179.94 flags 802: No such process
gated[1005847]: Start gated[1005847] version 4-0-6 built Wed Aug 1 14:54:56 EDT 2001
gated[1005847]: trace_on: tracing to "/usr/tmp/gated.log" started
gated[1005847]: inet_init: *WARNING* IP forwarding disabled!
gated[1005847]: rt_add: MARTIAN will not be propagated 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 gw 127.0.0.1 Kernel
gated[1005847]: Commence routing updates

Can anyone help ?

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

This normally happens when niffd detects a connection failure in the interface. If the link is detected as down, the gated daemon will remove the interface IP information.

Check your network cable, switch port. Try manually configuring the speed and duplex mode on both, network interface and switch port. Use the lan_config command.

[Frank Steinmann]

Hallo Ivan,
tks for info. This event ocures endeed after
changing a network-switch.
I will check the connection and come back later.
regards
Frank

[Vladimir Fabecic]

Frank
Things like that happen when autonegotiation is set on port on network switch. Problem is probably caused by your new switch.
Just disable negotiation on ports to which alpha servers are connected.
Also check console settings of your NICs.
Regards

[Frank Steinmann]

setting NIC from autonegotiation to "FAST"
solved the Problem.