No - what happens if you are a firewall? You want to configure the interface
without taking packets from it. You want to block the packets or pass them to
the other interface. No route.
> I am using version 2.2.1 I don't get errors on startup even though
> I 'ifconfig' and 'route' as usual.
Good news.
> domainname analogic.com
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 broadcast 127.255.255.255
> route add -net 127.0.0.0 dev lo metric 0 netmask 255.0.0.0
> ifconfig eth0 204.178.40.224 netmask 255.255.248.0 broadcast 204.178.47.255
> route add -net 204.178.40.0 dev eth0 metric 0 netmask 255.255.248.0
> route add default gw 204.178.40.1 metric 1 dev eth0 netmask 0.0.0.0
> PATH=${OLD_PATH}
Peter
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