Re: howto disable auto route setup?

Paul Jakma (paul@clubi.ie)
Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:20:43 +0000 (GMT)


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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