On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:35:48PM +0100, Michael Schoen wrote: > Hi guys, > > i am just playing around with iproute2 and some questions came to my mind. > > I´m wondering why I get a route entry for the subnet of eth0s primary addr > if I use the command "ip link set eth0 up". > > I´m personally not a friend of such behaviour, because I often need some > strange routing set-ups. Is it possible to avoid this behaviour, meaning I > only get routing entries if I really set them by myself? This behaviour has been hotly contested on the linux kernel mailinglist, perhaps the archives can tell you if there is a way around this. Also read the 'ifconfig replacement script' bij Alexey which contains Deeper Magic which might be useful. Regards, bert hubert -- PowerDNS Versatile DNS Services Trilab The Technology People 'SYN! .. SYN|ACK! .. ACK!' - the mating call of the internet
