>> So, I guess someone(tm) has to hack the dhcp client to add an explicit route >> to the gateway in the /32 case.
I also I had this problem running Linux on GCE and after dhcp initialisation I still had to issue the following for the networking to work: sudo route add -net 10.240.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 dev eth0 sudo route add default gw 10.240.0.1 eth0
