From: Mehmet Avcioglu (mehmet_at_activecom.net)
Date: Thu 14 Nov 2002 - 19:38:12 GMT
Make your mask 255.255.255.255
- Mehmet
Lars Braeuer wrote:
> this is not direclty a vserver related "problem/question" but it's linux
> related,
> so I'm sending the question to this list. please don't blame me for
> this. ;)
>
>
> when adding an IP address using ifconfig, why is ifconfig adding a route
> to the kernel routing table?
> in most cases this is useful, but in some cases it isn't.
>
> I heared from someone else (the programer of heartbeat), that this
> doesn't happen on his suse 7.3/8.0 boxes.
>
> is anyone else of you experiencing the same.
>
> does anyone happen to know if this a kernel related problem?
>
> I tested it on more than 5 linux servers (suse 7.3, suse 8.0), and it's
> the same on all of them.
> the kernel is self compiled, as well as the net-tools package (ifconfig,
> route etc.).
>
>
> # ifconfig eth0:1 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
>
> # route -n
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
>
> # ip route
> 10.0.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.0.1
>
>
> lars