Why default route is not installed last?

Hiroki Sato hrs at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 26 11:39:05 UTC 2013


Xin Li <delphij at delphij.net> wrote
  in <521670FF.6080407 at delphij.net>:

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de> Hi,
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de> I've noticed that we do not install default route last (after other
de> static routes).  I think we should probably install it last, since the
de> administrator may legitimately configure a static route (e.g. this
de> IPv6 address goes to this interface) that is required by the default
de> route.

 Do you have an example?  I could imagine some theoretically but
 personally think that the default route which depends on a static
 route is one which should be avoided.

-- Hiroki
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