Installing and Administering Internet Services

Chapter 8 385
Configuring gated
Troubleshooting gated
proto: RIP State: <NoIn NoOut>
lan0 Index 2 Address 802.2 8:0:9:1b:da:1f Change: <>
State: <>
Refcount: 2 Up-down transitions: 0
15.13.119.134
Metric: 0 MTU: 1436
Refcount: 6 Preference: 0 Down: 120
Change: <> State: <Up Broadcast Multicast
NoAge>
Broadcast Address: 15.13.119.255
Subnet Number: 15.13.112 Subnet
Mask: 255.255.248
lan2 Index 3 Address 802.2 8:0:9:3d:2c:b1 Change: <>
State: <>
Refcount: 2 Up-down transitions: 0
198.1.1.17
Metric: 0 MTU: 1436
Refcount: 4 Preference: 0 Down: 120
Change: <> State: <Up Broadcast Multicast>
Broadcast Address: 198.1.1.255
Subnet Number: 198.1.1 Subnet Mask:
255.255.255
lan1 Index 4 Address 802.2 8:0:9:3d:3c:69 Change: <>
State: <>
Refcount: 2 Up-down transitions: 0
198.2.1.40
Metric: 0 MTU: 1436
Refcount: 4 Preference: 0 Down: 120
Change: <> State: <Up Broadcast Multicast
NoAge>
Broadcast Address: 198.2.1.255
Subnet Number: 198.2.1 Subnet Mask:
255.255.255
Interface policy:
Interface lan0 lan1 lan3 passive
Note that the state recorded in lan2 does not contain the “NoAge” flag
because the interface was not set to “passive” in the interface policy
statement.
A common mistake is to expect gated to always send out RIP packets
when you specify rip yes in a configuration file. gated will be an active
RIP participant only if the host is a router (the host has more than one