(usagi-users 03402) Re: How to avoid automatic route creation?

[Ignacy Gawedzki <ig@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:56:12PM -0700, thus spake Mark Huth:
> I'll wade in here a bit , given that I've been looking at the routing 
> tables over the last few weeks.  I'm confident the gurus will correct my 
> tentative understanding.

Big thanks for all the explanations.

After some more analysis of what's going on I found that each time a route to
a destination is removed (and possibly replaced by a new route), the
destination entry is removed as well, so this doesn't seem to cause my
problems after all.  I'll keep on analysing more exotic setups to ensure that
this is always the case.

Nevertheless, I'll try to add that net/ipv6/conf/*/send_redirects switch, to
spare some frames.

A word about source routing: it seems only possible for UDP packets.  The
application has to use sendmsg and pass along control data to be put into
the headers.  Am I getting it right?

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