From 4ec1933dfddfccb112f6664fa5466db548363f81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:24:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update ip.8 man page to describe route table id values 2.6 kernel allows 2^32 route tables, but documentation stated only 255 values were possible. --- man/man8/ip.8 | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/man8/ip.8 b/man/man8/ip.8 index 3efa0455..a5d29153 100644 --- a/man/man8/ip.8 +++ b/man/man8/ip.8 @@ -1395,13 +1395,13 @@ normal routing tables. .P .B Route tables: -Linux-2.x can pack routes into several routing -tables identified by a number in the range from 1 to 255 or by -name from the file +Linux-2.x can pack routes into several routing tables identified +by a number in the range from 1 to 2^31 or by name from the file .B /etc/iproute2/rt_tables By default all normal routes are inserted into the .B main table (ID 254) and the kernel only uses this table when calculating routes. +Values (0, 253, 254, and 255) are reserved for built-in use. .sp Actually, one other table always exists, which is invisible but