RE: [cobalt-users] [RAQ4] Routing issue - how do I remove a route?

[Greg Hewitt-Long <cobaltusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > I have one RAQ which won't work properly routing to our
>> domain - I think it's caused by a route which shouldn't be in
>> the routing tables...
>>
>> although perhaps I'm barking up the wrong tree...
>>
>> This particular raq has this entry in the output of /sbin/route
>>
>> 216.87.216.0    *               255.255.255.0   U     0     
>> 0        0 eth0
>>
>>
>> The others do not - goodness knows how it got there, but I
>> want to remove it - I've tried all sorts and I keep getting errors:
>>
>> [root /etc]# /sbin/route del 216.87.216.0
>> SIOCDELRT: No such process
>>
>>
>> 2. how to remove this route
>
>IIRC:
>
>/sbin/route del -host  ip.ad.re.ss reject
>
>I haven't used it for a while but I think this is for a /24
>
>/sbin/route del -net ip.ad.re.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 reject


won't that add a reject statement - ie, don't route to or from that domain?


If so, that's going to make things worse... I want to remove the route from the route table, but NOT reject traffic for it - it's already NOT routing to this address, and that's my entire problem.
regards

Greg
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