The request-route script distributed with the modutils package starts pppd
when a request is made for a connection to an IP address to which no route
has been established. This way, one's ISP can be automatically dialed
when one runs a program that uses TCP/IP.
My limited understanding of gated is that it's a routing daemon similar to
routed. It seems that while it's manipulating the routing table,
something (perhaps gated itself) is trying to make connections through
routes that don't exist. I assume you don't want to run pppd, so maybe
just removing everything but "#!/bin/sh" from the request-route script
would cause it to return, so gated can continue.
>From the README.ppp-slip file distributed with kerneld:
The patch to "linux/net/inet/route.c" will make a kerneld request for
the action KERNELD_REQUEST_ROUTE if no suitable route has been found.
This will make kerneld start the utility "/sbin/request-route" with
the requested route as a parameter (in aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd notation).
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Trevor Johnson