Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: howto disable auto route setup? | From | Krzysztof Halasa <> | Date | 03 Feb 1999 12:10:17 +0100 |
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"Fred Reimer" <Fred.Reimer@eclipsys.com> writes:
> It seems that people who have problems with the automatic creation of a > route are all using point to point interfaces, no?
No. The problem is when I want to setup an interface (for example, to be able to get packets on it), but don't want to route packets through it. A firewall might require such a feature - in fact, you usually don't want to add routing until all firewalling rules are defined. A listening-only host (i.e. syslog host) might not want to send any packets. There are probably other examples. Of course, you can _usually_ work around this.
The only example of automatic route not being a pain is a regular host (or router) with regular interfaces and routing. But not having such a feature doesn't break things.
If there is a _real_ need for automatic route creation, I would rather add the code to ifconfig - say, --autoroute flag would add network route to newly opened interface. -- Krzysztof Halasa Network Administrator of The Palace of Youth in Warsaw
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