Messages in this thread | | | From | Oleg Drokin <> | Subject | Re: routing behaviour change between 2.2 and 2.0? Why? | Date | Sun, 11 Apr 1999 21:56:15 +0400 (MSD) |
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Hello!
> > 62.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 UH X X X dummy0 > > What is the difference between dummy and ppp interfaces in this case? > There is no difference. > You had no route to 62.0.0.0/8 before, so that new route becomes active. > That ppp route will become active too after you delete gatewayed one. > Kernel respects the work, which you made manually and never overrides it 8) Ok. Now I see what you mean. I think it will be good to mention such kernel behaviour somewhere in Documentation/networking
> To avoid such ambiguity people use usually not zero metric > on gatewayed routes. It is valid way, but I like more to keep > always exactly one route for each destination i.e. to delete > wrong routes. Can we call them 'inactive' and keep around, just to be sure? ;)
Bye, Oleg
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