Hi! A while ago I've tried to configure multiple routing tables using iproute2-2.6.20. As my kernel at that time was configured without CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES this could not work. However, I got no error message from the ip command, the route was added to the main table, and it took me quite a while to locate the error.
From what a quick diff to 2.6.22 tells me, there seems to be no change addressing the issue, so I guess the same would hold for that version. Originally I had reported this issue with my distro, Gentoo: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181928 Now a Gentoo dev directed me towards this list here. There I also posted the steps I used to reproduce the issue: ip route add 123.45.67.89 dev ppp0 table 100 ip route show table 100 ip route show table main Expected result: route listed in table 100 but not listed in table main Actual result: route listed in table main, table 100 still empty I now have resolved the issue for me by reconfiguring my kernel, but you could probably save others some trouble by generating an error message in case the kernel doesn't support multiple tables. Greetings, Martin von Gagern
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