From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Diego Woitasen <diego@woitasen.com.ar>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ip route show shows the routes in the inverse order?
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:32:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120312193204.5be5b4b8@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA7Uhc=xFxiAc9ZL0KHQJ1Opr0m=Do_OuLmL7WWd7PU4JuUNnQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:18:48 -0300
Diego Woitasen <diego@woitasen.com.ar> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've noticed that iproute and the old route command show the routes
> in the inverse order. This new behavior looks related to the removal
> of fib_hash (replaceed by fib_trie). I think that the old behavior
> should be recovered. More specific routes in the first place looks
> more natural for me and it's been the behavior for years. It doesn't
> make any sense to change it.
>
> Sorry if this was already discussed, I couldn't find anything in the archives.
>
> Regards,
> Diego
>
The kerne never guaranteed any order in returned values. If you want a given
order than you need to sort them your self.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-13 2:32 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 [this message]
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
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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