Hi, I maintain a server which is located at an ISP who uses the following network-setup, announced via dhcp: - host route to gateway (with netmask 255.255.255.255) - default route through the gateway All four dhcp-clients in sarge cannot cope with these settings, they set a network route to the gateway machine first, which fails, so the gateway is unreachable. -> no net at all :-( Fortunatly it's possible to use serial console over ssh there and it's also easily possible to reinstall woody (triggered from a webpage). They use a modified dhcp-client in their woody install which doesnt have the above problem. I'm fairly sure I have tested it with the debian woody dhcp client, which also has the above described problems. Can anyone confirm that woody clients can or cannot cope with this setup ? If they can, this would be a bug and regression, if they cannot it would only be a bug. (I worked around the problem and it's not my server, so I couldnt test it in as much detail as I wanted. Now I try to avoid setting up this test scenario by asking for your experiences with host-only routes to gateways... If noone answers I know what I have to do ;) regards, Holger
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