Why default route is not installed last?

Lev Serebryakov lev at FreeBSD.org
Mon Sep 2 20:06:56 UTC 2013


Hello, Xin.
You wrote 23 августа 2013 г., 0:13:51:

XL> I've noticed that we do not install default route last (after other
XL> static routes).  I think we should probably install it last, since the
XL> administrator may legitimately configure a static route (e.g. this
XL> IPv6 address goes to this interface) that is required by the default
XL> route.
 It is why I need patch network.subr after each upgrade on all my Hetzner
servers: they use IPv6 default route pointed to static route (not link-local
one)...

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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>



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