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Date:      Thu, 8 Sep 2005 14:48:34 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Jon Dama <jd@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Cc:        Jochen Gensch <incmc@gmx.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Default route doesn't change to wireless device (ath0)
Message-ID:  <20050908214834.GA8000@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0509081426360.18161@ngwee.ugcs.caltech.edu>
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On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 02:40:06PM -0700, Jon Dama wrote:
>=20
>=20
> > > And whenever there is a wireless network available (where the system =
can log
> > > in an get a network connection) the default route should be switched =
to that
> > > wireless nic. Or even better, if both connections work, automatically=
 choose
> > > the faster one :-).
> >
> > That's the goal we're headed towards.  Unfortunatly, it's not an instant
> > thing, particularly when people trying things like what you're doing
> > that don't map well into the old world view of static devices that don't
> > change networks.  The old model is wrong and has been so for quite some
> > time, but that doesn't mean there aren't assumptions related to it all
> > over the place.
>=20
> Again, the problem is with the routing code.  You should NOT need to be
> deleting default routes simply because one link goes down and another
> comes up on a different interface.
>=20
> Deleting the route simply because the interface went down is a hack.

Got a new routing implemention handy?  Until then, well have to live
with hacks. :(

-- Brooks

--=20
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