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Re: loopback routing - just curious



the 2.2 series kernel implicitly creates the network config (in comparison
to the manual creation you have to do in 2.0)

james

On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, da Bobstopper wrote:

> hiya, i've noticed that 
> 
> route add -net 127.0.0.0
> 
> doesn't seem to work anymore and, even more curiously, doesn't seem to be
> needed. i can still ping 127.0.0.1 but the 127.0.0.0 route isn't evident in
> my route -n output.
> 
> i gather that this is kernel related, not debian related since it only happens
> after upgrading the default slink kernel to 2.2.10, but i'm still curious. 
> 
> removing the 127.0.0.0 route from the older 2.0.36 kernel machines prevents
> me from pinging 127.0.0.1. i like it, but what happened?
> 
> from
> 
> da Bobstopper
> 
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