Messages in this thread |  | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: your mail | Date | Fri, 10 May 1996 09:54:29 +0100 (BST) |
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> right answers to the questions. Also, ifconfig'ing eth0 now adds a > route entry saying that the machine is not here but somewhere out there > on the net. If I don't delete that improper route entry, I start getting
Yes. A route is auto added for each device with its netmask. That makes various bits of BSD code work that assume this way of working. Unlike BSD you can delete these routes trivially if you want to pull something funny.
> socket distroy delayed messages. As for ifconfig reporting the wrong > io address, when did this change? Until very recently, it was reporting > everything correctly.
Its been that way since the first release that did that reporting.
Alan
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