Before I take the usual hard way of correcting a situation and wasting most of my holidays, I thought it would good to run this by the list. Thanks in advance.
I have two Linux boxes connected to separate Bigpond Direct accounts via modems that dial in to the same Telstra router. Anytime the two boxes talk to each other I get the following messages on the consoles of both machines: Dec 29 08:45:26 adminserver kernel: Advised path = 203.48.63.65 -> 139.130.12.155, tos 00 Dec 29 08:45:27 adminserver kernel: Redirect from 139.130.12.129 on ppp0 about 139.130.12.155 ignored. This is also filling up the system logs and basically it's very annoying. My understanding is that the Cisco router at Telstra is simply advising the Linux boxes that there is a direct path between them and that the routing tables should be updated to reflect this. ??? I am considering two strategies to eliminate this annoyance and would appreciate comments/assistance. 1. Eliminate the cause of the messages. I don't have control over the router generating the message so that option is out. I also thought that perhaps I could add a static route on each box to the other but that doesn't seem to work. I find it a bit confusing as each box has a network address plus a local and remote ip address being fed to pppd via options. These addresses were assigned by Telstra. Anyway, I've tried every combination of routing table entries and I still get the messages. 2. Replace klogd with something like megalog that allows regex matching so I can filter out the messages. I've read up on this and it looks like a strong possibility but I'd rather eliminate the cause of the messages if possible. So, anyone have any tricks up their sleeves? Cheers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Darrell Burkey Canberra, ACT --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.310 / Virus Database: 171 - Release Date: 12/19/01 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
