[LAU] Sending audio to another computer

[fons at kokkinizita.net]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:09:33PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:

> If I bring up a local network, say:
> $ sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.42.177 up
 
> The route to that 42 network is added to the routing table:
> $ route -n
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
> 68.28.49.85     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0
> 192.168.42.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
> 0.0.0.0         68.28.49.85     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 ppp0
> 
> 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.


What made me write the previous post was this excerpt from the
route manpage:

route add default gw mango-gw
       adds a default route (which will be used if no other route matches).  All packets using this  route  will
       be  gatewayed through "mango-gw". The device which will actually be used for that route depends on how we
       can reach "mango-gw" - the static route to "mango-gw" will have to be set up before.


which seems to imply that the existence of an interface does *not* imply
that packets for the corresponding network are routed to it. Nor, IMHO,
should it - you still may want to route some destinations on that network
via an other way, for whatever reason.

Ciao,

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