On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 20:52 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > It looks like an accidental behaviour (of the kernel) in response to
> > an ip route delete netlink message with no additional data.
>
> I don't believe it is accidental, it seems correct to me to delete
> the default route when no more specific selector is given. To avoid
> this, iproute could print an error when dst.bytelen == 0.
Agreed - basically the kernel does what its told.
I think the check should be on missing dst (default will always give you
bytelen of 0 for example and is legit).
Patchlet attached.
cheers,
jamal
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