Hi again. I noticed messages in my syslog that inform about bird dumping the routing table a bit to often to the interfaces. Example: Feb 13 09:36:41 (none) daemon.debug bird: rip1: Broadcasting routing table to eth0 Feb 13 09:36:51 (none) daemon.debug bird: rip1: Broadcasting routing table to eth0 Feb 13 09:36:58 (none) daemon.debug bird: rip1: Broadcasting routing table to eth0 Feb 13 09:37:09 (none) daemon.debug bird: rip1: Broadcasting routing table to eth0 Feb 13 09:37:20 (none) daemon.debug bird: rip1: Broadcasting routing table to eth0 Feb 13 09:37:26 (none) daemon.debug bird: rip1: Broadcasting routing table to eth0 Feb 13 09:37:33 (none) daemon.debug bird: rip1: Broadcasting routing table to eth0 Feb 13 09:37:39 (none) daemon.debug bird: rip1: Broadcasting routing table to eth0 Feb 13 09:37:45 (none) daemon.debug bird: rip1: Broadcasting routing table to eth0 Feb 13 09:37:53 (none) daemon.debug bird: rip1: Broadcasting routing table to eth0 If I did not fully misunderstood the meaning of the configuration options it should broadcast them every 30 seconds, not every 5 to 10 seconds: ---[cut]--- log syslog all; debug commands 2; router id 192.168.2.102; protocol kernel { persist off; scan time 20; learn on; export all; } protocol device { scan time 10; } protocol direct { interface "*"; } protocol rip { authentication none; honor neighbour; period 30; interface "eth0" { mode broadcast; }; interface "tun*" { mode broadcast; }; debug all; export filter { print "exporting (rip)"; accept; }; import filter { print "importing (rip)"; accept; }; } ---[cut]--- Did I miss anything? Another question: is there any chance to distribute my routing tables via RIPv2 over point-to-point links? I used Multicast mode at first (by not specifying any interface line in the "protocol rip" section of the configuration), but this did not seem to work. I don't know if it did not work because of a multicast problem (multicast is enabled in the kernel, I use linux 2.2.17) or if it did not work as there was no interface line (in this case the example in the documentation should be corrected). Using broadcast does not work as there is no broadcast address for the interfaces (tun*) that are used for the point-to-point link. What is needed for the multicast mode to work? Bye, Mike -- ------------------------------------ CompuLAN Europe GmbH Development - Wireless Solutions ------------------------------------