deleting routes

[Ragni Singh]

Hey all,

does one have to down the interface and then remove routes or can it be done with the interface up. I tried a route delete and its still showing as being up. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Pete Randall]

You should be able to delete the route with the interface up. Show us a netstat -rn and the syntax of your delete attempt, please.

Pete

[Marco Santerre]

You should be able to delete routes while the interface is up. I've done it a few times with my interfaces up with no trouble. Did you enter the destination and the gateway on your route delete?

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Sanjay,

route delete is very picky about it's syntax. I'd suggest you do a
netstat -rvn
to get verbose output.
Then use that info to construct the route delete command - EX: if it was entered as a route add net statement then it must be a route delete net statement to remove it. And remember any netmasks used in the add - they must be in the delete as well.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Ragni Singh]

Here is the syntax I typed and the result I got back. I think it worked.

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Sanjay

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