Re: dhclient-script: trying harder to set correct default route

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Feb 10, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Christoph Badura wrote:

> The following behaviour has been annoying me for a long time and I had
> the appended patch in my local trees for a couple of years.
> 
> When dhclient runs dhclient-script after binding to set the new IP address
> and default route (among other things), it fails to set the new default route
> if there already exists a default route in the system.  I get that situation
> regularly when restarting dhclient.
> 
> Does anyone object to the following patch?  I asked Ted Lemon about it
> and he said it is OK with him.

I think it's an excellent change.  I think, btw, that pppd (through its 
scripts) has a similar problem, though at the moment I can neither find the 
source to default scripts (if there is indeed a default) nor recall where I got 
the scripts that I'm using.

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb