On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 11:22:21AM +0200, Petteri Heinonen wrote: > Hi. > Why ifconfig adds route in localnet when I use it to bring up my eth0 > interface? Shouldn't that be done with route command after using ifconfig? > That is what is said in networking howto and in a Debian book I have. I read > manual pages for ifconfig, and there weren't a word about this feature. > Neither did I found option for switching this feature off. I have to say > that this doesn't cause any problems for me, I'm just curious.
That changed with 2.2 kernels. With 2.0 kernels you needed to manually add the route to attached networks. -- CueCat decoder .signature by Larry Wall: #!/usr/bin/perl -n printf "Serial: %s Type: %s Code: %s\n", map { tr/a-zA-Z0-9+-/ -_/; $_ = unpack 'u', chr(32 + length()*3/4) . $_; s/\0+$//; $_ ^= "C" x length; } /\.([^.]+)/g;