Re: RFC: nexthop cache separation

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 05/04/2016 03:16, Ryota Ozaki wrote:
>> Previous to the change you've proposed, 'route show' provided a more
>> comprehensive view of the routing state.  Now, it is missing several
>> useful items.  Where has the 10.0.1.1 route gone?  Where are the
>> MAC addresses?  Previously, you could issue one command and within
>> an eyespan have all of the information that you needed to diagnose
>> connectivity problems on routers.  Now, to first appearances, every
>> routing state looks suspect, and it's necessary to dig in with arp/ndp
>> to see if things are ok.
> 
> I think we can restore dropped information to route show output, but I'm
> not sure whether they should be there while they're not L3 routes and we
> can get them from arp/ndp commands easily. For the PoV of backward
> compatibility, we should do so though...

Can we at least have an option not to show them?
I quite enjoy the route output actually showing configured routes only.

Roy