From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 11 5:17:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48CA037B40B for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 05:17:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f5BCGrD54122; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 15:16:53 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 15:16:53 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Len Conrad Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Converting dynamic routes to static routes in rc.conf Message-ID: <20010611151653.B48278@sunbay.com> Mail-Followup-To: Len Conrad , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <02cc01c0f268$35ce3180$0200a8c0@ait.co.za> <02cc01c0f268$35ce3180$0200a8c0@ait.co.za> <20010611142351.A22655@sunbay.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20010611134306.00bdfea0@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010611134306.00bdfea0@mail.Go2France.com>; from LConrad@Go2France.com on Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:45:08PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:45:08PM +0200, Len Conrad wrote: > > >Yes. From the netstat(1) manpage: > > > >: S RTF_STATIC Manually added > > I'm sure Peter and I both read that, but when I checked a couple of my > machines, the route marked S were my default routes, which certainly > weren't manually added, but came from rc.conf. > Dynamic routes are created during route cloning, route redirect, etc. Routes that are created by route(8) or arp(8) are said to be "manually added". Dynamic routes are deleted after a timeout (ARP cache entries, protocol-cloned routes TCP creates). Manually added routes stay intact, as they are marked "static". Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message