Linux-Hams archive - July 1997: Re: confusion over routing with rspf

Re: confusion over routing with rspf

Terry Dawson (rxs@dds.gr)
Fri, 04 Jul 1997 08:22:54 +1000


Mike Bilow wrote:

> get where they are going. It seems far more likely to me that someone jiggered
> the /proc/net stuff to distinguish between implicit and explicit routes, and
> that both rspfd the "route" command are messed up because of their dependence
> upon /proc/net information -- but this is just a guess.

It was a well debated and calculated decision to not put implicit
routes in /proc/net/route I believe. I missed the start of the
thread on the net-dev list, but I'm fairly certain that the reason for
doing so was actually specifically to assist routing daemons, with
gated being of prime interest at the time.

Terry

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