Broadcasts not broadcasting?

[James A. Crippen]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Network Administration wrote:

>    Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 11:53:29 -0900 (AKST)
>    From: "James A. Crippen" <james at UnLambda.COM>
> 
>    I'm using bird 1.0.4 on an Intel Linux box (homemade distro).  I've
>    configured bird to do RIP broadcast.  I then plugged the system into my
>    local network and into a separate network and did the same with my desktop
>    system.  I configured bird to dump lots of debug info to the syslog, and I
>    see it say that it broadcasts its routing table to both eth0 and eth1, but
>    watching either network shows me absolutely no traffic from either
>    interface.  I pinged back and forth to be sure, and I can see the pings
>    and the associated ARP traffic quite clearly, but no RIP broadcasts at
>    all.
> 
> How are you watching??  Can you see UDP traffic?  If not, use
> Ethereal.

I am using tethereal, the command line version of the same.  It can see
UDP, pretty sure.

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