On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:04:01PM +0200, Juri Haberland wrote: > > I was under the impression that my 3 main tables should have been > > 'local', 'main', and 'default'. 'main' would contain routes to adjacent > > networks, and 'default' would contain default routes. So I could have > > solved my problem by just creating a table with precidence in between > > main and default, and changed the default gateway for 192.62.100.0/24 > > without changing network routes too. > > Well, according to the "Linux 2.4 Advanced Routing HOWTO" the default > table (or 253) should be empty and the default route should be in > 'main'. Hmm, that's strange. So in the situation I have, where the router is connected to 3 adjacent networks physically, and I only want to alter the default gateway for one subnet, without affecting the other local network routes, how would I do it? I'm assuming that if I insert a table before 'main', as I currently do, I have to duplicate all the routes to other local networks. If I add the table after 'main', the default route that's in main overrides whatever default route I would put in the new table. Is this logic sensible? > > Does this make sense? And if so, does anyone know why I have a table > > '253' with nothing in it, and no 'default'? > > Actually, I don't know why there isn't a default table but one named > '253'. I have the same here on a RedHat 7.1 system running kernel 2.4.5 > with iproute2-ss000305. Okay, at least I'm not alone. :) -- Adrian Chung (adrian at enfusion-group dot com) http://www.enfusion-group.com/~adrian GPG Fingerprint: C620 C8EA 86BA 79CC 384C E7BE A10C 353B 919D 1A17 [toad.enfusion-group.com] up 2 days, 17:17, 9 users
