Configuring gated
Configuration Overview
3.Add statements for any additional configuration information. See “Customizing Routes” on page 90, “Specifying Tracing Options” on page 92, and “Specifying Route Preference” on page 94 for other configuration options.
In particular, you may want to prevent gated from deleting interfaces from the routing table when gated does not receive routing protocol information from that interface. To do this, 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 that include 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, and so on) that acts as the default route. If you use a proxy ARP server, this is the local address of the interface attached to the same network as the proxy ARP server.
See “Customizing Routes” on page 90 and the section covering “Common Problems” on page 104 in the section “Troubleshooting gated” on page 101 for more information.
5.To check for syntax errors in the configuration file, run gated with the
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