Routes not deleted after link down

[Mike Tancsa]

At 04:29 AM 19/06/2005, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 10:14:32PM +0200, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
>J> Second, you may need a route daemon for this.  ospf is a well known
>J> canditate where convergence in case of lost link is a must.
>
>I've checked that Cisco routers remove route from FIB when interface
>link goes down. I haven't checked Junipers yet.
>
> >From my viewpoint, removing route (or marking it unusable) is a correct
>behavior for router. Not sure it is correct for desktop.
>
>My vote is that we should implement this functionality and make it
>switchable via sysctl. I'd leave the default as is.

I like this idea as well, but you need to control how the routes would come 
back after the interface comes back up ?  This seems more of the province 
of a routing daemon like quagga as opposed to a kernel feature no ?

         ---Mike