Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 04:22:40PM -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: >>>> No, it's looking for preexisting gateways in the main table which were >>>> removed with the network scripting. >>> I don't think so. As I said in my original post, I have traced and >>> tracked through the networking scripts and the delete is not being done >>> in userspace by any of them. I believe Andrew's explanation that the >>> kernel is removing the (multi-hop) default route is spot-on. >>> >> Doing an "ip addr flush dev DEV" leaves the multi-hop default gateway, >> if that interface has one and tags the gateway as dead. Same for >> /sbin/ifdown DEV. This is with network cards and not pppd, might be >> pppd's code that is causing your headaches. I'll dig around and see >> what I can find for pppd... > > Wrong behaviour. You're looking at removal of the *address*. The > special thing about ppp connections is that the entire ppp0 interface > goes away. > > Try rmmodding the driver for your network card driver and see what > happens. The routing table can accept a default route with an > incorrect address, but it can't accept a route to a device that > doesn't exist any more, since that would be a dangling pointer.
Thanks, I see what you mean.... So then I guess the only workaround is to use ppp's ip-down to replace the missing gateway. Jerry ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list Shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
