Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:33:03 -0600 (CST) From: Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Indirect routes with indirect gateways, bugfix Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103220912410.40323-100000@cody.jharris.com> In-Reply-To: <20010322094429.B53063@sunbay.com>
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > I wrote: > > > > Unless someone has a good motivation for not doing this, I am going > > to commit the attached patch that disallows indirect routes with > > indirect gateways. > > > Okay, I will rephrase this. Can you give me at least one example when > adding an indirect route with indirect gateway will work? If not, I > strongly insist on excluding this code. I agree that this is an administration error. However, you could add a static route like given in the example, and for some unkown reason, *expect* a routing daemon to learn a direct route to this network or indirect gateway (not a good idea). That's the only reason I can think of off the top of my head...I'm sure there's other reasons. Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> - Sanitation Engineer, or might as well be. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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