Re: adding localhost route

Philip Blundell (pjb27@cam.ac.uk)
Fri, 30 May 1997 17:58:06 +0100 (BST)


On Fri, 30 May 1997, wipe yer ass dude wrote:

> On Thu, 29 May 1997, Jeffery S. Coy Jr. wrote:
>
> > I am using the commands:
> >
> > ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
> > route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0
>
> route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 dev lo
>
> should work ok

Why do you want to do this? The kernel adds device routes for you
automatically - they just don't show up in the output from `route'.

p.