[iproute PATCH] man: ip-route.8: Add notes about dropped IPv4 route cache
From: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Date: 2016-11-30 08:30:00
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> --- man/man8/ip-route.8.in | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man/man8/ip-route.8.in b/man/man8/ip-route.8.in
index d4fae3cc783ba..c0acaa0020ef7 100644
--- a/man/man8/ip-route.8.in
+++ b/man/man8/ip-route.8.in@@ -924,6 +924,12 @@ routes are left unchanged. Any routes specified in the data stream that already exist in the table will be ignored. .RE +.SH NOTES +Starting with Linux kernel version 3.6, there is no routing cache for IPv4 +anymore. Hence +.B "ip route show cached" +will never print any entries on systems with this or newer kernel versions. + .SH EXAMPLES .PP ip ro
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