From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Dec 10 01:15:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA25880 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 01:15:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.AMS.Med.Uni-Goettingen.DE (ikarus.AMS.Med.Uni-Goettingen.DE [134.76.140.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA25866 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 01:15:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Sven.Anderson@AMS.Med.Uni-Goettingen.DE) Received: from sanders (helo=localhost) by mail.AMS.Med.Uni-Goettingen.DE with local-smtp (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0zo2B8-0003Oj-00; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 10:14:34 +0100 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 10:14:29 +0100 (MET) From: Sven Anderson To: Dave Marquardt cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/9012: route add -host hostIP -interface localIP doesn't work In-Reply-To: <85hfv4hgs2.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 9 Dec 1998, Dave Marquardt wrote: > sa@kki.org writes: > > a) If you set a route to a locally connected host with > > route add -host hostIP -interface localIP > > Hmm, I'm running 2.2 Stable from just a few weeks before 2.2.8 came > out, and the man page doesn't mention -interface at all. - From the man-page of route(8) in 2.2.8-R: If the destination is directly reachable via an interface requiring no intermediary system to act as a gateway, the -interface modifier should be specified; the gateway given is the address of this host on the common network, indicating the interface to be used for transmission. Alter- nately, if the interface is point to point the name of the interface it- self may be given, in which case the route remains valid even if the lo- cal or remote addresses change. sven - -- * email: sa@kki.org * fon.net: ++49-551-35430 * www: http://tuttle.home.pages.de/ * irc: tuttle "Macht verrueckt, was Euch verrueckt macht!" (Blumfeld) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQBVAwUBNm+Q+o9smRlwmxeVAQF7LgH/VUvY4n9vgXXwkxaQQVdNtq67I18oZFj9 D7uYU5va5oE5GfOND39wA27f8IOnMOZZhcplk+enaP9uI5tdGgJVcg== =MQDl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message