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Old 08-03-2009
solaris 10 u5 what happens if no default route configured

Hi,

I am new to solaris 10. What is the procedure the os takes if a default route is not configured? I am using a multihomed server with 4 interfaces. It looked strange to me this morning, because i had not defined a default route it defaulted to making one up, with the ip address of another server on the network?

If no default route configured does it do a broadcast ping on the network and pick a gateway that way? There can be multiple default routes, how is a default route choosen in that case, on a round robin basis?
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Old 08-03-2009
I may be wrong but don't see how you can get a default route without defining it in the /etc/defaultrouter file or the system picking it up from dhcp or boot server...
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Old 08-03-2009
i thought that too but there isnt anything configured in /etc/defaultrouter. no dhcp it has static ip addresses.
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Old 08-03-2009
maybe there is a script somewhere that is setting the default gateway at boot time

route add default 192.168.2.1
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Old 08-03-2009
if no route is defined, the server can only talk to the networks he is configured for... to check if there are routes configured, run the command:

Code:
# netstat -rn

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Old 08-03-2009
I'm afraid you are wrong thinking defaultrouter is the only way to configure a default route.

Solaris uses RIPv1, RIPv2 and Internet routing discovery protocols to automatically configure its routing table when no defaultrouter is defined.
Code:
svcs "*routing*"
man in.routed


Last edited by jlliagre; 08-03-2009 at 07:56 AM..
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Old 08-03-2009
i haven't said that defaultrouter is the only way to configure routes. but if you don't specify a router solaris fills the routing table via rip (as you correctly said). but nobody can be sure that you can reach a specific network if a wrong/unwanted route is discovered.
a defaultrouter is a good thing to configure! there are many services that depends on routing. e.g. ipmp...
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