Re: Help turning off RIP please

[Jack Coates <jack nemo index berkeley edu>]

Thomas Gaume wrote:
> 
> I asked this question earlier today but due to the responses I received I
> don't believe I gave enough details.
> 
> I need to disable RIP.  We are a wireless ISP and our radios run on a IP
> network that is transparent to our users and the rest of the world.  Our
> proprietary server must listen to RIP from the Internet, but the routes to
> route traffic to individual radios must be static, traditional next hop
> routing.  With RIP enabled on a clients machine the proprietary server
> picks up direct routes.
> 
> Example:
> 
> For traffic to get from machine (Router) A to machine (Router) B it must
> pass through radio C through the server and out on radio D.  Radios C&D are
> invisible to both machines but the controlling server knows how to pass
> this traffic.  With RIP enabled the either machine or router will broadcast
> a route that does not include the routes through the radios, that
> information is put in as a static route in the server and RIP tends to mess
> up the routing scheme.
> 
> Thanks In Advance for your continuing help.
> 
> Thomas L. Gaume
> VP - Operations
> Wireless Internet Services of Florida, Inc.
> 407-956-9414
> 
> http://www.wisof.net
> tom flwireless net
> 

Actually Tom, I did understand your problem. It's just against the Linux
code to hand-hold. Unix needs machismo, don't you understand!?

man routed -- this is Unix-ese for "the program that handles RIP is
called routed and you can get the documentation for it here."

linuxconf is the super RedHat control center program -- you can run in
in ncurses mode from a terminal window or in a very fancy Xwindows
version from the control-panel app. One of its menus lets you decide
what programs run in what initlevels. Locate routed and choose "disable"
in the initlevels you use, like 3 and 5.

You could also try reading Appendix C of your manual to find the package
that routed is included in, then remove that package from your machine.
Many possible side-effects, though.

You could also try locate routed which will give you the location of
every routed related file on your drive, which is a great way to
discover other documentation and configuration files.

You could rename routed to idontwannauserouted, or change its
permissions. This would be unwise but would work.

Hope this helps
Jack