On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Nels Lindquist wrote:
> Anyway, since upgrading to the 2.2.x kernels, I've been experiencing
> problems with duplicate routes, which I expect has something to do
> with the kernel's propensity to automatically update the routing
> table when the interface is configured, rather than having to utilize
> a separate command.
>
> However, this seems to be a complication for diald. I have multiple
> copies of both the SLIP and PPP interfaces for each diald instance,
> and I'm wondering if there's any way to avoid that.
>
> I'm using Redhat 5.2, upgraded to kernel version 2.2.3. I'm using
> diald 0.16.5a (RPM package) and ppp 2.3.5.
>
> Suggestions?
Get the latest 0.98.x diald from http://diald.unix.ch and put
a metric option in your config with a non-zero value. Diald will
create the routes with the higher metric then delete the
auto-generated ones which have zero metric. Note that even though
you can specify a metric it isn't good to rely on it since there
is that, unavoidable, window between the kernel auto-creating
the zero metric routes and diald replacing them. (No specifying
the interface metric has no effect and doesn't even work on 2.2
anyway)
Alternativly use 0.98.x and play with a routing daemon such
as gated that allows you to specify everything in its config
file. Diald 0.98.x works by adding and removing addresses from
interfaces in an attempt to coexist peacefully with routing
daemons like gated. Although I haven't actually experimented
with this myself yet :-).
The last alternative is to simply ignore the "extra" routes.
They aren't a problem. Just annoying.
Mike
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