Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 11:53:29 -0900 (AKST) From: "James A. Crippen" <james@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.