Can Dynamic Routing Be Turned Off?

[littlejohnny]

Hello!

Can aix be stopped from dynamically adding routes and how?

Thank you!

 

[DSMARWAY]

The question is , how big is your network ?
Do you manage routing statically i.e. add route add command in your startup scripts . Or do you have a large network
where your config changes regularly?

You need to check which , one you are using before you switch off dynamic routing .

To switch it off stop the routed and gated daemons if running.

HTH

 

[mrn]

To dynamically turn off routing, use no –o ipforwarding=0. To turn it off at system boot add that line to the /etc/rc.net file.

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| Mike Nixon
| Unix Admin
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[littlejohnny]

Thank you gentlemen for your replys. The reason I asked was that was IBM's reponse to a socks5 problem I was having.

 

[aixqueen]

Not sure if this helps or not? Are we talking cloned routes? Instead of dynamic routes? Because that caused a lot of problems in the past? with tables filling, and network performance....You may mean dynamic routes...forgive me if that is what you wanted....Just thought I would through cloned routes in just in case...

Cloning routes in 4.3.3

#no -o tcp_pmtu_discover=0
#no -o udp_pmtu_discover=0
. This values are set to 1 by default in AIX 4.3.3.
Which means clone routes....if you don't want cloned
routes change to zero.

Add it (near the bottom) in the rc.net file:
at the very bottom..... /usr/sbin/no -o extendednetstats=0 >>/dev/null
2>&1
if [ -f /usr/sbin/no ] ; then
/usr/sbin/no -o tcp_sendspace=65536
/usr/sbin/no -o tcp_recvspace=65536
/usr/sbin/no -o ipforwarding=1
/usr/sbin/no -o tcp_pmtu_discover=0
/usr/sbin/no -o udp_pmtu_discover=0
fi

 

[littlejohnny]

Thanx--I'll give this a try too.