On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 06:42:45PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On 30 Mar, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > [Redirected to -net]
>
> Please CC me, I'm not subscribed to -net. Thanks.
>
>
> >> If I use
> >> route add default -interface isp1
> >> I wan't to have the packets routed trough isp1. I don't care about how
> >> the routing table is held consistent, but I if the route is discarded
> >> without my interaction it not only violates POLA, in this case it's
> >> prohibits a valid use of the -interface feature (dial on demand via sppp
> >> is broken at the moment).
> >>
> > OK, finally got it. When the interface goes down, the address is still
> > valid, and there is no reason to delete (static?) routes that use this
> > address, but the new code does. I was confused by the code comment below
>
> I didn't have a static IP address. The only static thing in this context
> is the interface the defaultroute is assigned to. At every
> dial-on-demand I get another IP.
>
Well, if address is deleted from an interface, all routes that use it
will be invalidated (deleted) to avoid using the wrong address. This
patch only fixes interface down/up case, when address does not change.
Cheers,
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