On Tue, 12 Apr 2022 at 11:52, Udo Grabowski (IMK) <udo.grabow...@kit.edu> wrote: > On 12/04/2022 20:42, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Apr 2022, Judah Richardson wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 13:27 Udo Grabowski (IMK) <udo.grabow...@kit.edu> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> On 12/04/2022 20:00, John D Groenveld wrote: > >>>> In message <e042f009-5caa-bae0-5181-d294d4ad2...@kit.edu>, "Udo > >>> Grabowski (IMK) > >>>> " writes: > >>>>> No, it isn't, it's controlled by > >>>>> /lib/svc/manifest/network/routing/route.xml , > >>>>> which is not enabled by default, as practically no machine > >>>>> in the field is working as a router, you have to specifically > >>>>> enable the route:default service. > >>>> > >>>> svc:/network/routing/route is enabled out of the box with > >>>> OI-hipster-text-20211031.iso > >>> > >>> Why ?? This hasn't been the case for at least two decades of > >>> Solaris and beyond. > >> > >> Probably an oversight, I'd guess. As with many such situations, things > >> that > >> aren't obviously and critically broken don't get much attention ;) > > > > It is not really an oversight since all computers with a TCP/IP stack > > need to deal with some level of routing even if they are not acting as a > > gateway. If there is ever more than one way to get "there" via the L2 > > network then running a higher-level routing protocol (e.g. RIP) can help > > the TCP/IP stack make the right decisions if the involved routers use > > the same protocol. The host might participate in RIP or it might just > > act as an observer. > > > > In many cases one or more computers are attached to a shared L2 network > > with a single upstream router. In this case, using DHCP to configure the > > default route, or static configuration to provide the default route, can > > be a good choice. There are other means such as ICMP Router Discovery > > Protocol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICMP_Router_Discovery_Protocol) > > or even ICMP redirects. > > I have a few machines with two L2 networks (a.k.a. tagged VPN), and even > those don't require the routing service. In fact, in my over 3 decades > of experience with Sun machines, I only once have seen that the routing > service had to be active. That one case was when I experimented with the > COMSTAR network simulation tools to play with virtual switches and > routers.
Goodness, what a lot of mails! This is indeed a bug: 14006 ipv4-routing should not be enabled by default https://www.illumos.org/issues/14006 I haven't had time to work on it, but I am happy to talk it through with people who would like to pick it up and get it fixed! Cheers. -- Joshua M. Clulow http://blog.sysmgr.org _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss