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From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 03:51:15PM -0800, qingli@speakeasy.net wrote:
> 
> netstat -r
> ============
> Destination   Gateway     Flags    Refs    Use  Netif Expire
> default       gateway-38  UGSc     59      0    ep0
> localhost     localhost   UH       1      713   lo0
> 147.11.38/24  link#6      UC       1       0    ep0
> gateway-38    0:0:c:7:ac:26 UHLW   58      0    ep0    575
> 
> Now I do
> ========
> route add -net 192.103.54.0 64.81.55.1
> 
> an entry of
> ============
> 192.103.54   dsl081-055-001.sfo UGSc 0      2    ep0
> 
> is inserted. 
> 
> Why was I allowed to add such a route. The gateway
> 64.81.55.1 is not even reachable.
> 
It is actually reachable through the default route.
You can verify this by: ``route get 64.81.55.1''.
The other question is why FreeBSD allows the use of
indirect gateways.  Well, I've offered in the past
to disable this feature, but some other -net geeks
like this "policy routing" feature of BSD.


Cheers,
-- 
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