Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: howto disable auto route setup? | Date | Tue, 02 Feb 1999 15:47:30 +0000 | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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mike@roan.co.uk said: > Your argument appears to be that your assumptions are correct because > you think it's right - even though others do not and can tell you why. > Can we get back to a discussion of why the current behaviour is > inherently "right" or not?
I believe that it's not right. There is no need for it - the excuses for it have been "It shouldn't really cause a problem", without any good reason for it being advanced. It _does_ cause problems, and it doesn't appear to be necessary.
Can anyone give a sensible reason for putting this in the kernel, other than the dubious advantage of saving a few keystrokes for sysadmins who don't use their distribution's init scripts to set up routes.
(Let's ignore for the moment the fact that Linus isn't likely to remove it from 2.2 - the distributors may well do so, and it can be dropped from 2.3).
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