route add -net failure at boot

Darrin R. Smith (drsmith@eznet.net)
Thu, 13 Jun 1996 06:44:35 -0400

I am running the 2.0 kernel on my machine and I noticed that on bootup
route fails to add a route to 127.0.0.0. I tried adding the route
manually several times with successive failures each time. After I
started pppd to get online, however, I could add the route
just fine.

For reference, the command used was:

route add -net 127.0.0.0

I don't have the exact error message in front of me right now, but
I'll recreate it and send it out to anyone who's interested. Finally,
here's my config:

krynn:/home/drsmith/kernel[13]% egrep 'y$|m$' 20_config
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y
CONFIG_M486=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640=y
CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DTC2278=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y
CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_PPP=m
# ISDN subsystem
CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT_FS=m
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_SYSV_FS=m
CONFIG_UFS_FS=m
CONFIG_SMD_DISKLABEL=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_PRINTER=y
CONFIG_FTAPE=m
CONFIG_SOUND=m
CONFIG_SB=y
CONFIG_ADLIB=y
CONFIG_AUDIO=y
CONFIG_YM3812=y

I have installed ppp, umsdos, and sound as modules at boot time and I
don't use kerneld.

--Darrin

BTW - I did check the Documentation directory and it doesn't mention
anything other than a syntax change to use 127.0.0.0 instead
of 127.0.0.1 If this isn't a bug, then it should be
documented.