Confirmed. What is the proper mask for a "default" route? My
guess is that it is either all 0's or all 1's. In my opinion,
a netmask for a default route doesn't make a great deal of sense.
Certainly a netmask makes a great deal of sense for a route to a
specific network or host, but the idea of a default route is to
route that which cannot otherwise be routed. If the default route
netmask value doesn't matter, then the kernel shouldn't complain
when I fail to specify one :-).
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