Messages in this thread | | | From | "Fred Reimer" <> | Subject | RE: howto disable auto route setup? | Date | Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:29:56 -0500 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > [mailto:owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu]On Behalf Of Krzysztof > Halasa > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 6:10 AM > To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Subject: Re: howto disable auto route setup?
> 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 the only example is "regular hosts with regular interfaces and routing" would it not make more sense to add a flag to ifconfig - say, --noautoroute that would turn off the autoroute instead of the other way around? That way the default would be for "regular" situations.
> 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
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