Hello! I'm beginner with BIRD and need some help. And sorry for bad English.. :) If you can help me with only part of questions, please, do it :) I have FreeBSD station with interface em0 (and others), which acts as router. ______________________________________________________________________________ ifconfig em0 em0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM> inet 81.1.226.1 netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast 81.1.226.127 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xfffff000 broadcast 192.168.15.255 ______________________________________________________________________________ and I need to broad/multicast through it three mentioned RIPv2 routes I created config: _____________________________________________________________________________ log "tmp" all; table testable; debug protocols all; protocol static { table testable; debug all; import all; # from the protocol to the routing table export none; route 0.0.0.0/0 via "em0"; route 81.1.226.0/23 via "em0"; route 192.168.0.0/16 via "em0"; } protocol rip RIP { # You can also use an explicit name table testable; export all; import none; debug all; port 520; period 10; interface "em0" { mode broadcast; }; honor never; authentication none; } protocol device { scan time 60; # Scan interfaces every 10 seconds } ______________________________________________________________________________ Questions: 1) I have two aliased IPs on em0, so I need to send broadcast to 81.1.226.127 and 192.168.15.255 both (my third-party MS-windows client doesn't understand multicast). tethereal -i em0 port 520 Capturing on em0 0.000000 81.1.226.1 -> 81.1.226.127 RIPv2 Response 0.000002 81.1.226.1 -> 81.1.226.127 RIPv2 Response 0.000590 81.1.226.1 -> 81.1.226.127 RIPv2 Response How can I make BIRD to send packet to both 81.1.226.127 and 192.168.15.255? And why there are three packets, not just one? 2) Then, I have "period 10" in config, but in the BIRD's log "says" about 2-7 seconds ______________________________________________________________________________ 10-08-2004 23:18:34 <TRACE> RIP: Broadcasting routing table to em0 10-08-2004 23:18:38 <TRACE> RIP: Broadcasting routing table to em0 10-08-2004 23:18:41 <TRACE> RIP: Broadcasting routing table to em0 10-08-2004 23:18:48 <TRACE> RIP: Broadcasting routing table to em0 10-08-2004 23:18:50 <TRACE> RIP: Broadcasting routing table to em0 10-08-2004 23:18:56 <TRACE> RIP: Broadcasting routing table to em0 10-08-2004 23:19:03 <TRACE> RIP: Broadcasting routing table to em0 10-08-2004 23:19:07 <TRACE> RIP: Broadcasting routing table to em0 10-08-2004 23:19:09 <TRACE> RIP: Broadcasting routing table to em0 ______________________________________________________________________________ at the same time dump says about ~28 seconds. What's wrong?..... ______________________________________________________________________________ tcpdump -n -i em0 port 520 tcpdump: listening on em0 23:21:43.334495 81.1.226.1.4060 > 81.1.226.127.520: RIPv2-resp [items 3]: {0.0.0.0}(1) {192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0}(1)[|rip] [tos 0xc0] [ttl 1] 23:21:43.334498 81.1.226.1.4060 > 81.1.226.127.520: RIPv2-resp [items 3]: {0.0.0.0}(1) {192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0}(1)[|rip] [tos 0xc0] [ttl 1] 23:21:43.334937 81.1.226.1.4060 > 81.1.226.127.520: RIPv2-resp [items 3]: {0.0.0.0}(1) {192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0}(1)[|rip] [tos 0xc0] [ttl 1] 23:22:10.335409 81.1.226.1.4060 > 81.1.226.127.520: RIPv2-resp [items 3]: {0.0.0.0}(1) {192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0}(1)[|rip] [tos 0xc0] [ttl 1] 23:22:10.335411 81.1.226.1.4060 > 81.1.226.127.520: RIPv2-resp [items 3]: {0.0.0.0}(1) {192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0}(1)[|rip] [tos 0xc0] [ttl 1] 23:22:10.335963 81.1.226.1.4060 > 81.1.226.127.520: RIPv2-resp [items 3]: {0.0.0.0}(1) {192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0}(1)[|rip] [tos 0xc0] [ttl 1] 23:22:38.341199 81.1.226.1.4060 > 81.1.226.127.520: RIPv2-resp [items 3]: {0.0.0.0}(1) {192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0}(1)[|rip] [tos 0xc0] [ttl 1] 23:22:38.341202 81.1.226.1.4060 > 81.1.226.127.520: RIPv2-resp [items 3]: {0.0.0.0}(1) {192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0}(1)[|rip] [tos 0xc0] [ttl 1] 23:22:38.341783 81.1.226.1.4060 > 81.1.226.127.520: RIPv2-resp [items 3]: {0.0.0.0}(1) {192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0}(1)[|rip] [tos 0xc0] [ttl 1] ______________________________________________________________________________ So, I very need help :)