Re: ifconfig & route

[brian moore <bem@cmc.net>]

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.

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