From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 16:34:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 16:34:02 -0500 Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu ([198.82.162.213]:24331 "EHLO lennier.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 16:34:00 -0500 X-WebMail-UserID: sitan Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 16:41:28 -0500 From: "Tan, SiewYeen" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00002964 Subject: Routing table update Message-ID: <3DEF8ED9@zathras> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: WebMail (Hydra) SMTP v3.61.08 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello. I have questions about updated retrieving routing table. I deleted a route/entry from the routing table using 'route del...' command, and used 'route' to display the routing table. The routing table does not show the deleted entry, but the file /proc/net/route still has the deleted entry. I would like to read the file /proc/net/route to plot a network topology, but this file doesn't seems to be updated whenever i deleted an entry. What file i should i access this updated routing table? or what should i do to get the updated table? Any suggestion? btw, it works fine with adding an entry.... Thank you very much tan