routing table madness

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Gilles Germon <ggermon at soubabere.fr> wrote:
>> -----Message d'origine-----
>> De : linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-
>> sxs.org] De la part de Lonni J Friedman
>> Envoyé : mercredi 25 novembre 2009 15:03
>> À : Linux tips and tricks
>> Objet : routing table madness
>>
>> I've got an entry in the routing table that conflicts with another
>> entry that I use to connect to my employer's VPN (using vpnc).  I'd
>> like to delete the route, but no matter what I do, it doesn't work.
>> First, here's 'route -n' output:
>>
>> Kernel IP routing table
>> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
>> Iface
>> 172.16.217.26   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0
>> tun0
>> 216.228.112.12  10.0.2.2        255.255.255.255 UGH   0      0        0
>> eth0
>> 172.16.229.26   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0
>> tun0
>> 10.0.2.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0
>> eth0
>> 169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1002   0        0
>> eth0
>> 172.16.0.0      0.0.0.0         255.240.0.0     U     0      0        0
>> tun0
>> 10.0.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0
>> tun0
>> 0.0.0.0         10.0.2.2        0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0
>> eth0
>>
>> The route that I'd like to delete from above is:
>> 10.0.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0
>> tun0
>>
>> Unfortunately, when I attempt to delete the '10.0.0.0 tun0' route, it
>> fails to work:
>> # route del 10.0.0.0
>> SIOCDELRT: No such process
>>
>> Similarly:
>> # ip route del 10.0.0.0
>> RTNETLINK answers: No such process
>>
>>
>> Surely I'm doing something wrong here, but I can't figure out what
>> after googling for a while.
>>

>
> # route del -net 10.0.0.0 ???????

Unfortunately, that doesn't work either.  Same error as above.