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Date:      Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:53:12 +0100 (CET)
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        andre@freebsd.org
Cc:        melifaro@FreeBSD.org, net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [patch] interface routes
Message-ID:  <20130307.085312.41695129.sthaug@nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: <51384443.5070209@freebsd.org>
References:  <513834E4.7050203@FreeBSD.org> <51384443.5070209@freebsd.org>

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> This brings up a long standing sore point of our routing code
> which this patch makes more pronounced.  When an interface link
> state is down I don't want the route to it to persist but to
> become inactive so another path can be chosen.  This the very
> point of running a routing daemon.  So on the link-down event
> the installed interface routes should be removed from the routing
> table.  The configured addresses though should persist and the
> interface routes re-installed on a link-up event.  What's your
> opinion on it?

Yes please! This is what I take for granted on my routers.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no



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