RIP - in.routed: How does it work?

Hi,

I installed two solaris 9 workstations and I put them in a private network.

I didn't specify a default gateway but some static routes.

I have seen that while running netstat -rn the two solaris exchange their routes creating very confusion.

This seem to be related to the process in.routed started during boot phase by /etc/rc2.d/S69inet.

Is it correct that the two processes are active? (on other solaris 9 with default gateway configured the in.routed process is not active).

So does solaris run RIP by default? If this is the case how can I disable RIP?

When RIP is active I'm not able to connect to these two workstations. Also a ping to them goes in timeout.

Thanks,

Tarek

[835 byte] By [tarek] at [2007-11-25 22:42:36]