A few days ago, I swapped out a Powerrouter that had a couple of bad
ethernet ports for a new one. I did a backup on the old router, and a
restore on the new one to transfer the config over. After installing
the new router, I noticed that the LCD display was suddenly
functional, displaying CPU usage and uptime. I thought this was odd
because none of my other powerrouters (including the one I had just
pulled) did this. They all just said "Network Appliance" on the LCD.
Anyway, I thought "great"! I've always wondered if it was possible to
get the LCD to work.
Well, now come today, and I have a customer complaining about RDP
sessions getting dropped. I started digging into it, and found that
every 20 seconds, this router shows this in the routing table:
0 ADS 0.0.0.0/0 r 10.112.207.216 1 WriteLCD
1 Do 0.0.0.0/0 r 10.1.1.140 110 ether6
2 ADo 10.1.1.0/28 r 10.2.1.145 110 ether5
3 ADo 10.1.1.24/30 r 10.2.1.145 110 ether5
Entry #1 is the legitimate default route. So where in the heck is
that WriteLCD interface coming from and why am I getting a default
route to it? It only appears every 20 seconds, and then disappears.
When I do a /interface print, I also get this every 20 seconds:
0 R ether1 ether 1500
1 R ether2 ether 1500
2 R ether3 ether 1500
3 R ether4 ether 1500
4 R ether5 ether 1500
5 R ether6 ether 1500
6 R ether7 ether 1500
7 R WriteLCD ppp-out
I'm guessing this screwy default route is what is causing my
customer's RDP problem, and I'm guessing it's related to my now
functioning LCD. So, how do I stop it from screwing up my routing
table?
Craig
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