On Sunday 26 February 2012 08:09:31 James Knott wrote:
Ruediger Meier wrote:
At any given time, how many routing tables would you have in use?
I guess even you have more than one routing table in use. At least 4 ones: local/ipv4, local/ipv6, main/ipv6, main/ipv6.
What are you referring to be local and main? Routing is only used for destinations that are not on the local network. Therefore, there shouldn't ben any routing table entries for anything on the local network.
local is a special routing table for localhost and broadcast. It is managed by the kernel ip r show table 255 There are other reasons for wanting to use multiple routing tables. I have seen some routing conundrums that could only be solved with them. Such problems usually involve multiple network cards, and multiple viable paths to the same host, where the kernel by default makes the wrong choice and you have to step in and force it to do the right thing Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org