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<pre>somebody wrote:<br>> adds a default route (which will be used if no other route matches).<br>><br>> which seems to imply that the existence of an interface does *not* imply<br>>that packets for the corresponding network are routed to it.</pre>Do you want to read that man page again? Or perhaps just those two sentences.<br><br>The direct route will be taken unless you are very, very serious, take a good aim,<br>brace yourself, and then explicitly shoot yourself in the foot. You can do it, but you<br>probably wouldn't want to do it again.<br><br>That course of action was not a part of the thread. Your interpretation of the manual<br>is wrong.<br><br>Regards, nick.<br><br>"we have to make sure the old choice [Windows] doesn't disappear”.<br>Jim Wong, president of IT products, Acer<br><br><br><br><br>> Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 22:50:08 +0200<br>> From: fons@kokkinizita.net<br>> To: ken@restivo.org<br>> CC: linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org<br>> Subject: Re: [LAU] Sending audio to another computer<br>> <br>> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:09:33PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:<br>> <br>> > If I bring up a local network, say:<br>> > $ sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.42.177 up<br>> <br>> > The route to that 42 network is added to the routing table:<br>> > $ route -n<br>> > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface<br>> > 68.28.49.85 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0<br>> > 192.168.42.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0<br>> > 0.0.0.0 68.28.49.85 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0<br>> > <br>> > Again, assuming we're keeping it simple and dealing with non-overlapping netmasks, a local route doesn't have to be added explicitly. Maybe that's what caused the confusion.<br>> <br>> <br>> What made me write the previous post was this excerpt from the<br>> route manpage:<br>> <br>> route add default gw mango-gw<br>> adds a default route (which will be used if no other route matches). All packets using this route will<br>> be gatewayed through "mango-gw". The device which will actually be used for that route depends on how we<br>> can reach "mango-gw" - the static route to "mango-gw" will have to be set up before.<br>> <br>> <br>> which seems to imply that the existence of an interface does *not* imply<br>> that packets for the corresponding network are routed to it. Nor, IMHO,<br>> should it - you still may want to route some destinations on that network<br>> via an other way, for whatever reason.<br>> <br>> Ciao,<br>> <br>> -- <br>> FA<br>> <br>> O tu, che porte, correndo si ?<br>> E guerra e morte !<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Linux-audio-user mailing list<br>> Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org<br>> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user<br> <br /><hr />Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. <a href='https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969' target='_new'>Get it now.</a></body>
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