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Date:      Tue, 20 Jun 2000 22:39:05 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: Software detection of link integrity 
Message-ID:  <55786.961533545@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jun 2000 21:24:25 BST." <200006202024.VAA66394@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> 

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In message <200006202024.VAA66394@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>, Brian Somers writes:

>> I did this entirely for sppp, but it applies fully to any other
>> interface: an ethernet should remain configured but remove the
>> routes if the cable is unplugged.
>
>No, I think the aim here is to keep the routes but to adjust them so 
>that they're via an interface rather than an IP number, something 
>like:

We should not keep an route to a net which is down, that is just wrong,
and defeats the pupose of routing daemons like gated/zebra etc.

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