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Date:      Mon, 11 Jun 2001 15:16:53 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Converting dynamic routes to static routes in rc.conf
Message-ID:  <20010611151653.B48278@sunbay.com>
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 %2B0200
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>

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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,
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