[mesh-dev] Route selection question

[Mitar]

Hi!

Random comment. Policy routing is really helpful. You can then have
routes from a routing protocol in one routing table, then default/WAN
routes in another.

ip rule


Mitar

> 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.
> 
> 
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