Moe Trin wrote:

>>Also i find the following "strange" entry in the routing cache:
>>
>>Source Destination Gateway Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
>>10.219.192.1 255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 bl 0 0 5 lo
>
> Two things - notice it's on the loopback interface. The destination of
> 255.255.255.255 is an 'all networks broadcast', and probably relates to
> DHCP.
>
>>What does the flag bl mean? Can anyone give me a hint?
>
> I don't know, but the 'b' should be 'broadcast', and I _think_ the 'l'
> is 'listening'. My 'proc' man page doesn't mention it.
>
> Old guy

Well, they say that source is the ultimate doc, but *damn*. I just grabbed a
current net-tools-x-.src.rpm and started looking around. In its
lib/inet_gr.c, I find /* #include realy broken */. That's a
cut-n-paste.

I've been needing to get familiar with this code for some time, as there's
a bug in netstat that I need to hunt down. I guess I need to break down,
apply all the patches, and put in some evening hours. Erk. Upside is that
this FC3 machine needs to become an FC4 machine. May as well procrastinate
by doing that first.

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Greg Metcalfe
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