deleting direct route from kernel routing table

Martin Mares mj at ucw.cz
Tue Feb 7 12:15:57 CET 2006


Hello!

>   just a quick question. i deleted an ip adress from an interface, bird
> noticed it, deleted the associated network route from it's routing table, but
> didn't delete it from the kernel routing table. the kernel route for that
> network was put there by bird, so i would guess it should clean it up, or am i
> mistaken?

If it was Linux 2.2 or newer, BIRD should never add device routes to the
kernel table. If it does, that's the bug which should be fixed.

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