Subject: Re: Net/3 oddity?
To: David Jones <dej@inode.org>
From: Manuel BOUYER <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 12/01/1997 11:46:42
On Nov 30, David Jones wrote
> I discovered this while attempting to install 1.3ALPHA.  I have not seen
> this before.  Is it worth send-pr'ing?
> 
> (boot single user, or install, without configuring networking)
> ifconfig ne1 206.248.33.198
> ping 206.248.33.197
> PING endplay.inode.org (206.248.33.197): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 206.248.33.197: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=1.234 ms
> ping: failed to clear cached route: Network is unreachable
> 

This is known, and I don't know if it should be considered as a bug:
the new code automatically adds a route to 127.0.0.1 for any local IP adress.
Of course if lo0 is not configured, it fails ...

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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