Re: Pre-release 2.0.5 breaks network config scripts
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi)
Sun, 19 May 1996 14:52:42 +0300 (EET DST)
On Sat, 18 May 1996, JF Martinez wrote:
>
> The following worked in 1.3.98 and no longuer in 1.99.5:
>
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> route add -net 127.0.0.1
>
> Yes, it should be:
> route add -host 127.0.0.1
No, it should be
route add -net 127.0.0.0
> but this worked before. I have checked the kernel
> config and didn't see anything suspicious.
We got rid of the old compatibility code that was written for the 1.0
release.. The current kernel is a lot stricter about these things.
Linus