From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jarek Poplawski Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9816] New: cannot replace route Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:58:43 +0100 Message-ID: <20080127075843.GA2633@ami.dom.local> References: <20080125142603.a73fd7a2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <479A6CBD.4010908@gmail.com> <20080125192026.e667f396.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080126114036.GA2624@ami.dom.local> <20080126141010.GC2624@ami.dom.local> <20080126151934.GA2969@ami.dom.local> <20080127011126.GA3408@ami.dom.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Joonwoo Park , Andrew Morton , netdev@vger.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org To: Andreas Schwab Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.157]:46199 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751227AbYA0H4E (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jan 2008 02:56:04 -0500 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e21so1260290fga.17 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:56:02 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080127011126.GA3408@ami.dom.local> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 02:11:26AM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote: ... > But comment#3 is "ambiguous"... It looks like you don't want to show > us too much... So, apparently you change the route, but it seems this > route exists; you have this: > 10.0.0.0/8 dev eth0 scope link > but probably also something like this: > default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 src 10.204.0.116 > > So, I doubt there is any "real" change attempted here. It looks more > like a question if program should allow for changing the form of route > entries even if they mean the same, and if this should be reported as > error at all? But maybe I miss something... ...But, on the other hand, default route shoudn't affect adding or changing specific routes, so this behaviour is wrong, and IMHO this change should be reverted or fixed. Regards, Jarek P.