How does RIP work in solaris?

[7280]

Hi,
I installed two solaris 9 workstations and I put them in a private network.
I didn't specify a default gateway but some static routes.
I have seen that while running netstat -rn the two solaris exchange their routes creating very confusion.
This seem to be related to process in.routed started by /etc/rc2.d/S69inet.
Is it correct that the two processes are active? (on other solaris 9 with default gateway configured the in.routed process is not active).
So does solaris run RIP by default? If this is the case how can I disable RIP?
Thanks,
Tarek

 

[bfitzmai]

If you know your Router's IP Address, you should put the IP Address in the file /etc/defaultrouter... This should disable RIP. This file is not there by default... You will have to create it. Reboot the system when done.

 

[7280]

Hi,
this server should not have the default gateway, that's why I didn't configure it.
I have seen that I can disable RIP by creating the /etc/notrouter file (this disables also ipforwarding, but I need it!).
The thing I don't understand is why solaris decides to activate RIP. Ok to consider the workstation a router if it has more than two nics and /etc/defaultrouter is not configured. But activating RIP creates lot of confusion!

Tarek

 

[coffeysm]

I think it activates it to locate routers on the network. You could try disabling it in the actual startup script?