Andreas G. Schindler wrote:
>
> Mikhail Saykov wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a problem that does not points exactly to this list but I think
> > that the problem comes from new kernel net code.
>
> Mikhail,
>
> the problem you encountered is common with all unpatched versions of
> gated when running Linux 2.1.x. There are siggnificant changes in the
> kernel routing code since 2.0.x. A month or 2 ago i ran various tests
> on this new code. It shows that the routing flags must be set to
> distict values when deleting routes, even if the route in question
> ist compeltely determined by destination and netmask. Gated doesn't
> honor those flags in the required way, so it's not able to delete any
> routes, even those that were previously created by gated itself.
>
> This, in conjunction with the 'double route entry feature' (see this
> mailing list some days ago) IMHO may be considered a bug.
> I reported this to Alexej Kusnetzov, the author of the Linux 2.1.x
> routing code, but he told me it's supposed to work like this :-(
I think that this is true because it is closer to RFCs but without any
informations about patches (now gated is patched and works) and Config
files for gated it is very hard to use Linux as router ;-))
Thanks again.
Mikhail Saykov
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