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From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] strange default routes
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:15:02 +0200
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Hi,

> the problem semms to be found and very much trivial. the recent
> openWRT-release (or especially the ixp4xx-port ?!) as well as the rather
> old slackware10.2 comes _without_ policy-routing compiled into the kernel.
> figure this out ... an OS for embedded routers comes without advanced
> routing capabilities ... nothing i've expected. nevertheless batman should
> detect this and give a hint rather than trying to write to non-existent
> routing-tables.

this sounds odd. A check for policy routing seems to be a good idea but does 
anyone know how to check that ?

Regards,
Marek