RE: howto disable auto route setup?

Fred Reimer (Fred.Reimer@eclipsys.com)
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:29:56 -0500


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> [mailto:owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu]On Behalf Of Krzysztof
> Halasa
> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 6:10 AM
> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: howto disable auto route setup?

> The only example of automatic route not being a pain is a regular
> host (or router) with regular interfaces and routing. But not having
> such a feature doesn't break things.

If the only example is "regular hosts with regular interfaces and routing"
would it not make more sense to add a flag to ifconfig - say, --noautoroute
that would turn off the autoroute instead of the other way around? That way
the default would be for "regular" situations.

> If there is a _real_ need for automatic route creation, I would rather
> add the code to ifconfig - say, --autoroute flag would add network
> route to newly opened interface.
> --
> Krzysztof Halasa

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