somebody wrote:Do you want to read that man page again? Or perhaps just those two sentences. The direct route will be taken unless you are very, very serious, take a good aim, brace yourself, and then explicitly shoot yourself in the foot. You can do it, but you probably wouldn't want to do it again. That course of action was not a part of the thread. Your interpretation of the manual is wrong. Regards, nick. "we have to make sure the old choice [Windows] doesn't disappear”. Jim Wong, president of IT products, Acer > Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 22:50:08 +0200 > From: fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: ken@xxxxxxxxxxx > CC: linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Sending audio to another computer > > 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, > > -- > FA > > O tu, che porte, correndo si ? > E guerra e morte ! > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it now. |
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