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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.

  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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