Subject: Re: Strange routing problem: NetBSD goes outside for a local IP address
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/12/2003 17:05:12
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:23:40AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:07:35PM +0100,
>  Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote 
>  a message of 77 lines which said:
> 
> > Actually I can't see how this is wrong. If you have an entry in the routing
> > table, it's expected to be used :)
> 
> No, it is expected to be used *after* the local interfaces are
> consulted. Remember that Linux does not do it
> and OSPF gurus think
> that it should not be done.

The fact that linux doesn't do it doesn't mean everyone shoudn't do it.

> 
> Anyone runs OSPF PtP links on NetBSD? How do you address that issue?

From a quick look on google, adding a route in the zebra config file for your
local address to the loopback interface may solve the problem

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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