Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Feb 1999 20:16:03 +0100 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: howto disable auto route setup? |
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Hello,
> By flagging an interface as 'pointopoint $otherhost', you tell the kernel > to add an outgoing route to $otherhost. Attaching a network route to a > fictitious class [ABC] network, and a corresponding broadcast route, is > semantical insanity. > > 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
ifconfig should definitely use netmask 255.255.255.255 as default when setting up pointopoint interfaces. This avoids the problem.
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "For every complex problem, there's a solution that is simple, neat and wrong."
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