Networking Guide
Chapter 5, Configuring Internet Protocol (IP) routing

Routing table updates

Routing table updates

As illustrated by ``Direct routing example'', and ``Indirect routing example'', the successful routing of IP packets depends on the contents of the kernel routing table. Entries in the kernel routing table are created, removed, and changed:

A special STREAMS driver handles all updates to and lookups in the kernel routing table. This driver and the messages used to communicate with the driver are described in route(ADMP). All SCO TCP/IP commands and routing daemons that need to update or access data in the kernel routing table use this driver. More information is provided in the discussion of the routing daemons (see ``Routing daemons'').