Silently? Didn't you get a big fat error message? Silent breakage was
what the original commit I pointed you to fixed.

Sure, but I got it when it was already to late - after the upgrade of iproute and the following reboot for a new kernel image. Then I was wondering why my server did not come back on the network and had to run down to our server room... :-)

To use "ip route" in this way was possible for as long as I can think about it. With Debian at least till etch - if this behavior will now be removed by the new upstream version in lenny, then I would say it should be noted somewhere (readme, warning during upgrade, manpage, wherever).

Because now that I know what will happen, I can schedule checking /etc/network/interfaces on our 200 etch servers before upgrading them to lenny :-)

Regards,
Andreas




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