[Openswan dev] [design] Thoughts for phasing out nexthop= settings

Stephen J. Bevan stephen at dino.dnsalias.com
Tue Feb 3 23:00:59 CET 2004


Paul Wouters writes:
 > We believe that for 2.4 and up, the nexthop= settings are no longer
 > neccessary.  Since the current updown scripts already use advanced
 > routing (the "ip" command), we already broke on 2.2 kernels, which
 > are also the kernels that would be the ones who still need the
 > nexthop settings. 

nexthop wasn't needed in 2.2 either, at least not in 2.2.[12]x, didn't
try it in anything older.


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