loopback route fails?

[Bob Bernstein <ruptured-duck@home.com>]

A thousand pardons if this a faq, but why does, in /etc/init.d/network, the
line:

route add -net 127.0.0.0

fail? The message is:

SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

I have yet to detect an ill side-effects from this. The system is a potato
with 2.2.9.


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