Bug 137173

Summary: routes(5) manpage question
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh>
Component: NetworkAssignee: Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Status: VERIFIED INVALID QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: RC 4   
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jan Engelhardt 2005-12-06 16:55:51 UTC
The manpage says...

       The first column gives the destination, written as the IP-address of  a
       host  or a network. The heading default indicates that the route is the
       default gateway. Do not use 0.0.0.0 for this purpose. A  prefixlen  can
       be used; e.g., 10.10.0.0/16 is valid.

       The  third column gives the netmask for a remote host or remote network
       behind a gateway.  For the default route or if you were  using  a  pre‐
       fixlen in the first column, you can omit it.

So what would I have to put in the 3rd field if I had specified a prefix in the first? Which one is valid?
 192.168.77.0/24 192.168.76.1 - -
or
 192.168.77.0 192.168.76.1 255.255.255.0 -
Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-12-07 10:14:43 UTC
This is not a bug.  Please use bugzilla for bugs only.