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Re: another strange bootup message: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument



Britton wrote:
> 
> Oddly, this one does't show up in dmesg.  It happens a couple of times
> during bootup and thats it.  Ideas what is going on would be mose welcome.

You have a `route add -net ...` in one of your init scripts (most likely
in /etc/init.d/network).  This was needed by the 2.0 kernel (those were
the times), but is no more necessary on 2.2 or 2.4.  It doesn't do any
harm and can be safely removed.

Cheers,
Viktor

PS: I bet this bit every single Debian user who upgraded from slink to
potato.  :)
-- 
Viktor Rosenfeld
WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/



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