bin/52758: bogus default IP route (netstat -rn/route add) handling/display.

[Eric AUGE]

The following reply was made to PR bin/52758; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Eric AUGE <eric.auge at cw.com>
To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Eric AUGE <eauge at fr.cw.net>, bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/52758: bogus default IP route (netstat -rn/route add)
 handling/display.
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 05:13:53 +0200 (CEST)

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 On Wed, 28 May 2003, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
 
 ru >There's nothing unexpected here; route(8) displays non-contiguous
 ru >netmasks this way: key&netmask.  The default route is the route
 ru >with both key and mask of all zeroes, by definition.  When you
 ru >specify a third argument (netmask), it becomes non-default, but
 ru >rather a ``-net 0 -netmask <netmask>''.
 
 ok i didn't know about the output format,
 and i didn't know why i was believing that it did check
 if the next hop was within the address space of one
 the interfaces (physical or logical).
 
 thanks bringing this to me, i might have just missed it
 in route(8).
 
 Best Regards,
 
 Eric.
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