Re: RFC: ethernet links should remember routes the same as addresses

Julian Anastasov (ja@ssi.bg)
Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:04:35 +0000 (GMT)


Hello,

Christopher Friesen wrote:

> the addresses are still visible associated with the link. Then I run "ip link
> set dev ethX up". The route in the main routing table comes back, but none of
> the other routes do. Somehow, all of those additional routes must be re-added.

One solution is already implemented: static routes

http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/~julian/
Static, Alternative Routes, Dead Gateway Detection, NAT

Read about the motivation here:
http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/~julian/dgd-usage.txt

More specific pathes:
00_static_routes-2.2.19-4.diff
00_static_routes-2.4.12-5.diff

Regards

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Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>

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