Why default route is not installed last?

[Julian Elischer]

On 8/26/13 7:56 PM, Kimmo Paasiala wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Hiroki Sato <hrs at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 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
> Isn't that the case when the default gateway address is on a different
> subnet than the address assigned to the interface? Such set ups are
> admittedly odd but they should be possible on FreeBSD as well as on
> other OSes.
That has always been specifically not supported. default route needs 
to be directly attached.
in fact the routing tables only ever deliver the 'next hop'



>
> -Kimmo
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