netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] IPV4: remove addresses and routes when carrier is lost

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Message-ID: <20080604135307.GI16162@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date:	Wed, 4 Jun 2008 09:53:07 -0400
From:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@...tta.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] IPV4: remove addresses and routes when carrier is lost

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:32:22AM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> That should be easily fixed, the kernel provides all necessary
> information to make this decision in userspace.

It seems much cleaner for zebra to only ever touch routes that it
created, which would be the ones of type zebra.  Type kernel seems best
only managed by the kernel.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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