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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Diego Woitasen <diego@woitasen.com.ar>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	billfink@mindspring.com, shemminger@vyatta.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ip route show shows the routes in the inverse order?
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:47:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1331657253.4449.2.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA7UhcmMYa+N4VUFjfM_qjCdhy3zAE0C8eN+Z0nsACNZeJ4RKA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 11:26 -0300, Diego Woitasen wrote:

> I don't aggree at this point. First, it was the behavior for years,
> like a "de facto" standard. Second, there a "natural ordering"  for
> routes. More specific match first, so it makes sense for them to be in
> the first place.

Please provide an iproute2 patch, this is not a kernel issue at all.

Keep in mind it might be very tricky, since a machine can have tons of
routes.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-13 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-13  1:18 ip route show shows the routes in the inverse order? Diego Woitasen
2012-03-13  2:32 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-03-13  6:15   ` Bill Fink
2012-03-13  6:52     ` David Miller
2012-03-13 14:26       ` Diego Woitasen
2012-03-13 16:47         ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-03-13 15:37       ` Ben Greear
2012-03-14  5:30         ` Bill Fink
2012-03-14  5:32           ` Stephen Hemminger

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