Installing and Administering Internet Services

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Configuring gated
Configuration Overview
type man 4 gated.conf at the HP-UX prompt.
3. Add statements as needed for any additional configuration
information. See “Customizing Routes” on page 370, “Specifying
Tracing Options” on page 372, and “Specifying Route Preference” on
page 374 for other configuration options.
In particular, you may want to prevent gated from deleting interfaces
from the routing table if gated receives no routing protocol
information from that interface. One way to do this is to insert
passive interface definitions in the interfaces statements. For
example:
interfaces {
interface all passive ;
} ;
:
:
<protocol statements follow>
4. If you normally use default routes, you must configure a static default
route in the gated configuration file. If the default route is a gateway
node, add the following entry to /etc/gated.conf (enter the gateway
node’s IP address for gateway_IP_Address ):
static {
default gateway
gateway_IP_Address retain ;
} ;
The default route may be a local interface, such as in topologies where
there is a Proxy ARP server on the local network. If the default route
is a local interface, add the following entry to /etc/gated.conf:
static {
default interface
local_IP_Address retain ;
} ;
The local_IP_Address is the local system’s IP address of the
interface or network interface name (that is, lan0, lan1, etc.) that acts
as the default route. If a Proxy ARP server is used, this is the local
address of the interface attached to the same network as the Proxy
ARP server.
For more information, refer to the section “Customizing Routes” on
page 370 and the section covering “Common Problems” on page 383
in the section “Troubleshooting gated” on page 381.
5. To check for syntax errors in the configuration file, run gated with