How to selectivey route messages 7111

Michael Heiming This link was interesting. It did make me download all 151 pages of "Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO", but his two pages are a bit confusing, mainly in the syntax. Every line of his examples is prefixed by a pound sign (#), so if a shell is supposed to do it, it won't.

OTOH, if I look atetc-iproute2, all I get is:

-etc-iproute2$ ls -l total 20 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 299 Nov 6 2003 rtdsfield -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 296 Nov 6 2003 rtprotos -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 114 Nov 6 2003 rtrealms -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 98 Nov 6 2003 rtscopes -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92 Nov 6 2003 rttables

and those files all start out with a pound sign (#), though they do not look like his examples. E.g.,

-etc-iproute2$ cat rttables # # reserved values # #255 local #254 main #253 default #0 unspec

# # local # #1 inr.ruhep

I do not understand where his files are supposed to go. They seem to talk to both iptables and to the ip program.

???

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