Re: ip_rt_advice: redirect to 130.151.17.213/00 dropped

Eloy A. Paris (eparis@ven.ra.rockwell.com)
15 Apr 1999 12:38:28 GMT


Hi!

Abdul-Wahid Paterson <eesa@webstar.co.uk> wrote:

> I get exactly the same message from my kernel. They are routing advice
> packets being received by the kernel. Probably you have some sort of
> router on the network that is sending out RIP packets for dynamic links.
> This would mean that 130.151.17.163 is not a permentant route and the
> router is notifying other routers on the network that it is dropping the
> route (i.e. 130.151.17.163 has gone off-line).
>
> I don't think that they are harmful to your set-up. If your linux box is
> not set-up to do routing it will just ignore them.

Well, what you have said sounds pretty reasonable: 130.151.17.163 is
the address assigned to remote PPP hosts. This address is active only
for the duration of the incoming PPP session.

Thanks!

peloy.-

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