From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bert hubert ahu@ds9a.nl Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 21:57:35 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] iproute2 and routing entries Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: lartc@vger.kernel.org 
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:35:48PM +0100, Michael Schoen wrote:
> Hi guys,
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> i am just playing around with iproute2 and some questions came =
to my mind.
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> I=B4m wondering why I get a route entry for the subnet of eth0s=
 primary addr=20
> if I use the command "ip link set eth0 up".=20
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> I=B4m personally not a friend of such behaviour, because I ofte=
n need some
> strange routing set-ups. Is it possible to avoid this behaviour=
, meaning I
> only get routing entries if I really set them by myself?

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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