I thought I understood how route selection works: Most specific route is always selected.

So if you have a route for 10.0.0.0/8 and another for 10.0.0.0/24 then the /24 will be selected when the destination falls within the /24

This works as expected.

However, if I add a /32 route e.g. 10.0.0.42/32 then it gets prioritized _lower_ than the /8 and /24

Why does this happen and is there anything I can do about it?

Example:

> ip route add 10.0.0.42/32 src 10.0.0.1 dev eth0

> ip route add 10.0.0.0/24 src 10.0.0.1 dev eth0

> ip route

10.0.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.0.1

10.0.0.0/8 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.0.1
10.0.0.42 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.0.1

Aaaa! Why is the /32 all the way at the bottom?

In other news: Made some progress on extender node stuff tonight. I decided to use VLANs to put both the open and adhoc networks on the extender nodes and have updated the configs for tp-link and extender node accordingly.

marc/juul