On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, John Willis wrote:
> New network tools fix the odd display of routing entries,
> but won't make the kernel stop doing this.. the HQ appears
> to applaude this as a good thing.
> [...]
> They appear to make many older tools and programs incompatible
> with the new kernel.. could someone explain to me why this is
> a 'good' thing?
No one seems to know the explanation but it seems to be
accepted as being "right". The next 0.98.3 will get it
mostly right - mostly, because we can't control the initial
routes' metrics since they are auto-created when the interface
is configured. If you want your demand dialled links to have
a high metric to make them fallback paths there will be a
window when they might snatch traffic. It seems that people
that know routing don't do dial up :-(.
Mike
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