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author | Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com> | 2010-04-22 15:24:37 -0700 |
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committer | Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com> | 2010-04-22 15:24:37 -0700 |
commit | 4ec1933dfddfccb112f6664fa5466db548363f81 (patch) | |
tree | 6ed4005695d8094ac7226d93ebb2ca0dfba35fa3 /man | |
parent | 3979ef91de9ed17d21672aaaefd6c228485135a2 (diff) |
Update ip.8 man page to describe route table id values
2.6 kernel allows 2^32 route tables, but documentation stated only
255 values were possible.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r-- | man/man8/ip.8 | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/man8/ip.8 b/man/man8/ip.8 index 3efa0455..a5d29153 100644 --- a/man/man8/ip.8 +++ b/man/man8/ip.8 @@ -1395,13 +1395,13 @@ normal routing tables. .P .B Route tables: -Linux-2.x can pack routes into several routing -tables identified by a number in the range from 1 to 255 or by -name from the file +Linux-2.x can pack routes into several routing tables identified +by a number in the range from 1 to 2^31 or by name from the file .B /etc/iproute2/rt_tables By default all normal routes are inserted into the .B main table (ID 254) and the kernel only uses this table when calculating routes. +Values (0, 253, 254, and 255) are reserved for built-in use. .sp Actually, one other table always exists, which is invisible but |