On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Marcel Holtmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lennart, > >>>> I am tempted to say that we should try to apply as much information from >>>> DHCP as we can by default, but make sure it doesn't become a security >>>> problem. i.e. we should probably use metrics or so so that manual routes >>>> always win, or routes to other interfaces. >>> >>> I think using metrics is a good idea. Are there some accepted >>> guidelines on what reasonable >>> values for route metrics should be? Static routes (from [Route]) are >>> added with 0, what would >>> a good value for DHCP routes be? 100? 1000? >> >> Hmm, something in the middle of the range, I figure, that is still nice >> to type and look at for whatever that is. pick something... Also I >> figure the default route added due to dhcp config should also use this >> same metric. > > it might actually make sense to provide a configuration option for the metric > value here. And if not present just default to something that make sense. > Seems like 1024 is pretty popular. > > Allowing different metrics for multi homing situation seems like a neat > benefit. If by all means possible, add all routes provided by DHCP for eth0 > with metric A and for eth1 use metric B. You never know what kind of > datacenter network configuration you encounter. I have seen really crazy ones > in my lifetime ;)
Yeah, this makes sense. I've added it to the TODO. Cheers, Tom _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
