[ExtractStream] tivo deleting my gateway route

J. Scott Dorr merlin at f...
Wed, 20 Feb 2002 23:29:38 -0800


On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:06:51PM -0800, Roger Merchberger wrote:
> --- "J. Scott Dorr" <merlin@f...> wrote:
> > It seems that ever since my tivo upgraded its software to
> > 2.5.1-01-1-000, it's got a nasty habit of deleting the gateway route
> > from the routing table. It took me a while to figure this out, so
> > making daily calls is something of a manual process, I first have to
> > run a 'route.tivo add default gw xx.xx.xx.xx' command, and then make
> > it do a daily call. Sometime after that, the route gets deleted.
> > 
> > Anyone know where this is happening so I can put a stop to it?
> 
> Did you "disable" the original route command? In the original TivoNet
> instructions it mentions to do this [untested, tivo at home, me at
> work]:
> 
> echo '#!/bin/bash' > route

Nope, that was it. I'd done this on the /dev/hda7 partition, but not
the /dev/hda4 partition. That was the problem. :) Thanks a bunch. :)

- scott