On Thu, 05 May 2005 07:53:36 -0700
Greg Varga <gvarga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I was working on one of our Linux routers yesterday, and when I issued a
> "ip route del" command (no arg's) by mistake, it deleted the default route.
>
> I was just wondering if this is indeed the way it was intended, or if
> its a bug and in fact should have displayed an error message? I
> personally would have preferred that it error'd with some sort of message.
>
> I'm running Fedora Core 2 with iproute-2.4.7-14 rpm installed.
>
> Thanks,
> --Greg
It looks like an accidental behaviour (of the kernel) in response to
an ip route delete netlink message with no additional data.
Comments?
|