On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 03:34:14PM +0300, Iasen Kostoff wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
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> > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 02:30:48PM +0300, Iasen Kostoff wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:40:07PM +0300, Iasen Kostoff wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Problem is that adding a route to host throw interface adds
> > > > > inerface as gateway (iface's lladdr). And you should manualy change lladdr
> > > > > of this route to the real lladdr.
> > > > >
> > > > > this is it:
> > > > >
> > > > > route add -host foo -iface bar
> > > > > arp -s foo real_lladdr_of_foo
> > > > >
> > > > > Is that realy a problem or I'm missing something ?
> > > > >
> > > > Try this:
> > > >
> > > > route add -host foo -link bar:real_lladdr_of_foo -llinfo -interface
> > > >
> > > But if I don't know the lladdr - because now I should use tcpsump(1) with
> > > -i iface -e to see the lladdr of the client and when they change their GW
> > > computer or its Lan card I should do that again (and if am not around they
> > > don't have inet ofcourse) but if they are connected on cisco router that
> > > do not hapen because I'm not routing to lladdr but throw iface.
> > >
> > > Can that be fixed some how ?
> > >
> > I apparently lost the context here. What are you trying to do?
> > You want the host ``foo'' to be resolved through ARP? If that
> > is the case, this is somewhat tricky, but still possible:
> >
> > route add foo/32 -iface bar -cloning
> >
> >
> I tried - route add foo -iface bar -cloning and it didin't work ofcourse :).
>
Yup, should be ``arp: couldn't allocate llinfo for <foo>rt''.
> I think route(8) or /sys/net/route.c should reject that kind of route.
> I tried to set or convert it to -net route - foo/32(I think the second way is
> better, what you think ?).
>
You can't change host route to network route, or vise versa; destination
is the Patricia's tree key, and it can't be changed. The only possible
way is like I suggested: ``route add foo/32 -iface bar -cloning''.
<PS>
You still did not tell me what are you trying to do. :-)
</PS>
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