Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 29 Nov 2001 22:18:41 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: RFC: ethernet links should remember routes the same as addresses |
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On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:59:52PM -0500, Christopher Friesen wrote: > Unfortunately, this seems to only list the routes in the main routing table, and > these routes are recreated automatically when I bring the link back up.
Well, it is not that hard to extend it.
Just iterate over ip rule ls output too.
(left as an exercise for the reader)
> If the driver re-init is totally separate from the routing code, is there any > real reason why shutting down the driver *should* remove all routes to that > device? Maybe the simplest solution would be a new ioctl that would be a link > *reset*...just down/up the link without affecting anything else....
If you just want to do a link reset you can use ethertool today with most drivers. What is different is a full driver reset to work around software/ hardware bugs. That would need to be a new ioctl.
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