Re: howto disable auto route setup?

David (david@killerlabs.com)
Tue, 2 Feb 1999 15:46:14 -0800 (PST)

On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Yet this is what the kernel does. What possible justification can there be for
> the automatic creation of the route which I delete in the second line of this
> script? ...
>
> /sbin/ifconfig ippp0 158.152.16.50 pointopoint 158.152.1.222 -arp -broadcast up
> /sbin/route del -net 158.152.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 dev ippp0
> /sbin/route add 158.152.1.222 ippp0
> /sbin/route add default gw 158.152.1.222

The justification is that you didn't put a netmask on there.

specify a netmask of 255.255.255.255 and the /16 route won't be added, the
/32 route will thus negating the need to remove the route and add a new one.

-d

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