Re: Linux Newbie...what's rooting ?!!1

[fred smith]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 01:27:21AM +0200, Ayman Nour El DIn wrote:
> i often hear the word rooting someone,,,what does it mean?!!!

Do you mean "routing" ??

For most of us English speakers "route" rhymes with "snout", though
some regional accents rhyme it with root.

if so, it refers to how the network layer knows where/how to send
packets it encounters. See the "route" command:

        man route

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