routing table madness

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
>
> I don't know much about this stuff, but on my network, 10.0.0.0 or 10.0.0.1,
> etc are ip addresses assigned by NAT, so they are only temporarily assigned.
>  So maybe that's why route del can't delete them?  Is that total bullshit?

Yes, that's total bullshit.  thanks though.



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