On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, David Miller wrote:
> Nonsense I think, ifconfig removes both network routes for me...
> ? ifconfig eth0 down
> ? route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 168.121.1.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> 0.0.0.0 168.121.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0
Of course this is going to remove all the routes, since without eth0
they're useless. That's obvious behavior.
The problem is when you have to remove a route with route(8) in order to
do other tricks:
[root@psi omega]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
10.1.7.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
10.1.7.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
10.1.3.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
10.1.3.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 10.1.3.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
[root@psi omega]# route del -net 10.1.7.0 netmask 255.255.255.0
[root@psi omega]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
10.1.7.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
10.1.3.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
10.1.3.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 10.1.3.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
[root@psi omega]#
*This*, IMHO, is broken. I've been playing with host-routing chains to do
ad-hoc wireless (10.1.7.x is WaveLAN), and it's a pain to have to delete 2
or even 3 routes to the same place before I can get rid of the network
route entirely. If we *must* have an automagically generated route show
up when you ifconfnig an interface (which I also think is broken), then at
the very least removing a route would remove all duplicate copies of it.
IMO, route(8) adding an identical route to something that already exists
is a bit broken too...
Haven't seen the right code, so I'm unsure if this is a kernel problem
(auto-adding of routes appears to be) or a net-tools issue, so I'm sending
this to both the kernel list (where it came from) and linux-net.
TTYAL,
Omega
Erik Walthinsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Staff Programmer @ OGI
Quasar project - http://www.cse.ogi.edu/DISC/projects/quasar/
Video4Linux Two drivers and stuff - http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~omega/v4l2/
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