Re: Mega Patch #8, or "Why stop now while we haven't broken it all"

John Gotts (jgotts@linux.reshall.umich.edu)
Tue, 10 Dec 1996 21:42:23 -0500

In message <32AE0E7B.34F3D918@mindspring.com>, you wrote:

>I still get this when I boot up:
>route forgot to specify route netmask.

>This is caused by these two statements in rc.inet1:

>/sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
>/sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.0

>ASny ideas?

It looks like default behavior was removed from the routing code. Here's a
fix:

/sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 dev lo

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