On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:09:33PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
> If I bring up a local network, say:
> $ sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.42.177 up
> The route to that 42 network is added to the routing table:
> $ route -n
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 68.28.49.85 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
> 192.168.42.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 0.0.0.0 68.28.49.85 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0
>
> Again, assuming we're keeping it simple and dealing with non-overlapping netmasks, a local route doesn't have to be added explicitly. Maybe that's what caused the confusion.
What made me write the previous post was this excerpt from the
route manpage:
route add default gw mango-gw
adds a default route (which will be used if no other route matches). All packets using this route will
be gatewayed through "mango-gw". The device which will actually be used for that route depends on how we
can reach "mango-gw" - the static route to "mango-gw" will have to be set up before.
which seems to imply that the existence of an interface does *not* imply
that packets for the corresponding network are routed to it. Nor, IMHO,
should it - you still may want to route some destinations on that network
via an other way, for whatever reason.
Ciao,
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