From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pppd creates route without "gateway" flag
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:50:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18669.61432.589922.730821@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b09e96770809171223j34dd04d7k52f29677c9c7a540@mail.gmail.com>
James Carlson writes:
> Bill Unruh writes:
> > On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Joakim Wennergren wrote:
> >
> > > I just looked at my routing table, and the route pppd created does not
> > > have the "G" flag like I'm used to, is there a reason for this?
> >
> > PPP is Peer to Peer Protocol. Ie, it is from one peer to another. It has
> > nothing whatsoever to do with gateways, etc.
>
> I think the original poster is talking about the default route
> inserted by the "defaultroute" option. As he rightly notes, it's
> missing the "G" flag:
>
> > > 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 ppp0
>
> And that is in fact a gateway route. The issue is whether that flag
> actually matters on Linux.
Why do you say it's a gateway route? It doesn't have a gateway
address. It's a route to the 0.0.0.0/0 network via the ppp0 device.
Paul.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-09 11:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-17 19:23 pppd creates route without "gateway" flag Joakim Wennergren
2008-09-17 21:15 ` Bill Unruh
2008-09-17 21:31 ` James Carlson
2008-10-09 11:50 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2008-10-14 10:26 ` James Carlson
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