How should multiple routers be handled by the client?

David W. Hankins dhankins at isc.org
Tue Jun 22 23:13:45 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:57:24AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> dhcp-options(5) just says that they should be listed in order of preference,
> which to me says that Debian is currently doing it wrong, and we need to
> iterate over the list of routers in reverse so that the first router wins.

You either want all of them installed in the routing table in some
way, or the first one.

This also buttresses up against the classless route option, if I
recall correctly, as I think it's legal to specify 0/0 as a route...

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