On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 08:02:04AM -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
> 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.
>
> Certainly. You add a route to a host on your corporate backbone via
> a non-local router to guarantee that management accesses the accounting
> servers via a path that does not traverse engineering. Of course the
> proper way to do this is with careful control of route tables or by
> using VLANs, but that's not what many companies have. Large networks
> of routers and hubs are still commonplace, and this "hack" allows the
> network administrator to create dedicated routes from one subnet to
> another without requiring them to spread the routes across the entire
> installation.
>
Excuse me, but have you really tried this? I assume, yes. All I can
get is the ``arp: can't allocate llinfo'' warning; IOW, I can't make
such a route work. Can you tell me what routing tables manupulations
should I make to make such a route start routing packets. An example
with the route(8) command would be great.
Thanks,
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