Good day
I recently checked some stuff on my gateway and discovered what I believe is an unneeded route entry.
# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask ... Iface
287.265.45.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 ... eth0
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 ... eth1
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 ... lo
0.0.0.0 287.265.45.1 0.0.0.0 ... eth0
The first entry sends packets targeted for the 287.265.45-network directly right (not through another gateway)?
But is this really necessary? Since...
$ traceroute 287.265.45.133
traceroute to 287.265.45.133 (287.265.45.133), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 287.265.45.1 (287.265.45.1) 227.574 ms 12.567 ms 12.8 ms
2 blabla.example.com (287.265.45.133) 2222.17 ms 2719.7 ms 3233.03 ms
... shows that the packets travel through 287.265.45.1 anyway.
[Yes, the ip-adress 287... is invalid, I changed it
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