[LARTC] iproute2 and routing entries

[bert hubert ahu@ds9a.nl]

<PRE>On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:35:48PM +0100, Michael Schoen wrote:
&gt;<i> Hi guys,
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> i am just playing around with iproute2 and some questions came to my mind.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> I´m wondering why I get a route entry for the subnet of eth0s primary addr 
</I>&gt;<i> if I use the command &quot;ip link set eth0 up&quot;. 
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> I´m personally not a friend of such behaviour, because I often need some
</I>&gt;<i> strange routing set-ups. Is it possible to avoid this behaviour, meaning I
</I>&gt;<i> only get routing entries if I really set them by myself?
</I>
This behaviour has been hotly contested on the linux kernel mailinglist,
perhaps the archives can tell you if there is a way around this.

Also read the 'ifconfig replacement script' bij Alexey which contains Deeper
Magic which might be useful.

Regards,

bert hubert

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