Networking help

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:12:26 EST
Marc Evans said:

>I use multiple default gateways on many 2.4.x linux systems. They work
>fine, and provide decent failover when routers go down for whatever
>reason. You may find it useful to contrast that with "ip route show" to
>see more details about the routing rules though.

By default Debian isn't shipping with the ip-tools package yet, so 
configuration is still done with the annoyingly absurd 'route' 
command which seems so broken in contrast to 'route' on Solaris.

But, I installed the ip-tools package just to see if would show me 
anything different.  It didn't, but I decided to play with the 'ip 
route' command.

<annoyance-level=insanely hi!?

	WHAT IS IT ABOUT LINUX THAT MAKES PEOPLE THINK THEY DON'T NEED
	MAN PAGES!!!!

	DESCRIPTION
	  This program does not have a useful manpage....
		.
		.
	  You can start reading the very good documents available in
          the  /usr/share/doc/iproute/  directory,  in .ps, .dvi and
          .tex formats.

	ERRRRRRRR!

</annoyance-level>

<rant>

I'm all for ps, tex, and dvi formats for documentation, but not for 
something which is a system management tool, at least not as the only 
form of documentaiton.  What if I'm using this box as a router and it 
has no monitor?  What if I'm logged in over a slow serial link, and 
need to quickly look something up?  ERrrrrrrr!  I hate these people, 
they are conspiring to piss me off and it's working!

</rant>

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