[Olsr-dev] drop routes with default-gw

Joe Gio (spam-protected)
Mon Feb 11 00:40:27 CET 2008


Will this work correctly with multiple gateways to the "backbone" 
running quagga and a fragmented manet ?

Joe Gio


Clemens Hopfer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I came across the idea of dropping the scope link route for the whole
> subnet on the wireless interface and then add the defaut route and only
> these routes, which differ from the default-gateway.
>
> If the router itself announces a default gateway, this shouldn't be
> done, so that Packets to IPs, which can't be reached don't loop or go
> through the internet connection.
>
> Any comments?
>
> I think this is a good method to keep the routes in the kernel low and
> the windows-machines will also like it ;-)
>
> cu,
> datacop
>
>
>   





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