Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:20:43 +0000 (GMT) | From | Paul Jakma <> | Subject | Re: howto disable auto route setup? |
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On 28 Jan 1999, Nick Holloway wrote:
> paul@clubi.ie (Paul Jakma) writes: > > Does anyone know how to disable the new 2.1/2.2 /feature/ of > > automatically adding route for ifconfig up'd interfaces?? > > I found that specifying a netmask of 255.255.255.255 helps alleviate > the problems caused by this (so you only get a host route). > >
yeah, but i need setup scripts that work for both 2.0 and 2.2. And it breaks things diald a bit, which exec ifconfig and then route.
ifconfig then route is pretty close to a UNIX standard, why change it? (or at least a syscall to choose between old and new behaviours).
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