[Cialug] Routes? Interfaces?

[Nathan C. Smith]

Missed some 'T's in there! 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org 
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Nathan C. Smith
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 9:41 AM
> To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'
> Subject: RE: [Cialug] Routes? Interfaces?
> 
> My educated guess is so that everything remains supremely 
> flexible.  There are probably distributions with packages 
> that will take care of everything for you if that is what you want.  
> 
> For example, you may load TCP/IP in the kernel and then set 
> up a Bluetooth interface.  You may only want to connect to 
> another Bluetooth device using TCP/IP and not assigning a 
> route - because you don't need one.
> 
> I would be a lot harder to do something very specific like 
> this if the route was created automatically or if I was 
> unable to use TCP/IP with my Bluetooth interface.  (I'm not 
> saying you can - I don't really know). 
> 
> I use AoE (ATA over Ethernet) and it just uses Ethernet 
> packets over the interfaces.  TCP/IP and routes are not necessary.
> 
> Maybe somebody else will have more specific cases.
> 
> -Nate
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org 
> > [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Todd Walton
> > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 9:32 AM
> > To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> > Subject: Re: [Cialug] Routes? Interfaces?
> > 
> > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Nathan C. Smith 
> > <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
> > > OSI Layers, interface is comprised of lower layers, route 
> > is at a higher layer.  In the Ethernet world, you can do
> > > a lot with an interface before TCP/IP and routing gets involved.
> > 
> > I see.  I was thinking a little more Linux specific, though.  When
> > adminning a Linux machine, why is there a kernel routing table?  Why
> > doesn't setting up an interface create an accompanying route and be
> > done with it?
> > 
> > -todd
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