Subject: Re: deleting appletalk routes?
To: Matthew ALDOUS <mda@bdl.mhri.edu.au>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.Stanford.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 03/12/1999 10:07:25
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Matthew ALDOUS wrote:

> 'lo (i've no idea which list is appropriate)
> 
> i'm unable to delete atalk routes, (ie, NETATALK), and
> was wondering if I'm doing something wrong, or is something
> amok..
> 
> --
> AppleTalk:
> Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use    Mtu  Interface
> 0.0                0.0                U           0        0      -  lo0
> 16500-16503.0      16500.33           U           0        0      -  fpa1
> 16500.33           0.0                UH          0        0      -  lo0
> 16504-16511.0      16500.33           U           0        0      -  fpa1
> 16512-16575.0      16500.33           U           0        0      -  fpa1
> 16576-16591.0      16500.33           U           0        0      -  fpa1
> 16592-16599.0      16500.33           U           0        0      -  fpa1
> 
> #route delete -atalk 16500.33
> writing to routing socket: No such process
> delete net 16500.33: not in table
> --
> 
> i'm having no end of trouble getting atalk to working with
> two fddi interfaces, neither of which have defined appletalk 
> zones - restarting atalkd to test an atalkd.conf change requires
> a reboot at the moment since things complain about
> "as_timer: can't route 16500.33 to loop: File exists"
> 
> if anyone has a clue in these matters, please let me know.

Sounds like the fddi support is a bit lacking.

How are you killing atalkd? It's supposed to clean up it's routes
automatically. Is it dying unexpectedly?

Try route flush atalk, which should zap them all.

What atalkd.conf do you have? You are using the package, aren't you?

Take care,

Bill