Question: route add unnecessary for dhclient? 

Forum: PCMCIA Network Adapter Issues
Date: 2000, Feb 24
From: Adam Goode <goodea@rpi.edu>

On line 60 of etc/network, there is the line /sbin/route add default dev $DEVICE which presumably adds the current device as the default gateway, when dhcp is enabled. When I insert my 3com ethernet card, configured as a static interface in network.opts, it works properly as default route. When I plug in my wavelan card, it takes over as default route, which means it knocks out default route for the ethernet, and makes it go over the wavelan. Right now, I am not near a access point, so dhclient finds nothing on the wavelan and goes to sleep. But the card is configured as default route, which I don't want. When I comment out the route add line in etc/network, it works correctly. Is the line necessary? Doesn't dhclient automatically add the route as necessary? Seems like it, check out /etc/dhclient-script. I am running Debian woody on x86. Adam Goode

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I'm not sure Re: Question: route add unnecessary for dhclient? (Adam Goode) Date: 2000, Feb 24 From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

I believe that the route command was necessary at one time, for at least some versions of dhcpcd and/or kernels, but I don't know if it is/was ever necessary for dhclient. Where do you get dhclient, anyway? I've never been able to find a dhclient package that wasn't for BSD. Maybe it doesn't matter, but network configuration scripts tend to be platform specific. -- Dave

1. Feedback: dhclient for Linux by Adam Goode, 2000, Feb 24 (_ Package name confusion, and a fix by David Hinds, 2000, Feb 24 (_ More: Hmmm, almost, but not quite by Adam Goode, 2000, Feb 24 (_ Argh by David Hinds, 2000, Feb 24

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