Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 13 Jun 1996 22:05:23 -0400 | From | "Darrin R. Smith" <> | Subject | Re: route add -net failure at boot |
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Bryn Paul Arnold Jones wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Darrin R. Smith wrote: > > > I am running the 2.0 kernel on my machine and I noticed that on bootup > > route fails to add a route to 127.0.0.0. I tried adding the route > > manually several times with successive failures each time. After I > > started pppd to get online, however, I could add the route > > just fine. > > > > For reference, the command used was: > > > > route add -net 127.0.0.0 > > > > Hmm, that should work, have you done the 'ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1' first ?
Problem solved -- someone remind me to use my redhat cd at the next skeet & trap session! Looks like I will be porting my slackware sys 5 init scripts this weekend. I originally thought writing and modeling them after the _real_ system 5 was painful enough, but these redhat scripts are awful!
Sorry about the not checking this out better first.
--Darrin
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