Re: bin/55649: /sbin/route add doesn't accept with -interface parameter

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

This is not a bug, please read the manual page of route(8)
again ...

     If the destination is directly reachable via an interface requiring no
     intermediary system to act as a gateway, the -interface modifier should
     be specified; the gateway given is the address of this host on the common
     network, indicating the interface to be used for transmission.

After "-interface" you need to specify the local (ie: this host's)
address on that interface, not the name of the interface.

A little odd, but it has been that way from the distant past when there
was no easy way for most applications to do anything useful with an
interface name.  On the other hand, address parsing etc has always been
relatively easy.  So ...

kre