On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 04:31:11PM -0700, Al Sparks wrote:
$ route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.7.13.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 10.254.214.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 0.0.0.0 10.7.13.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
# route del -net 10.254.214.0 netmask 255.255.255.0
I lose connectivity with the nodes on the LAN. When I do an
Of course you do. That entry you removed was saying "to reach the 10.254.214.0/255.255.255.0 network send traffic out of eth1".
It is _not_ saying "to reach the rest of the world..."; the last line does that.
I guess it's not a big deal. If it works don't fix it. But I'm still curious. Any ideas?
It works as designed. You just misunderstood what it meant.