as the original reporter of the issue, /32 instructs linux (and windows 2000+ and MacOS) to send all traffic to the gateway, never local. This is actually fairly common in switched & shared datacenters and avoids the need for private ip-addresses between two hops, or worse using valuable IPv4 addresses for routing hops.
Noteworthy is that isc-dhcp does The Right Thing in my opinion, by passing any semantically correct netmask on to the underlying layer without logical test. That should be up to the network layer wether or not it can digest it. uDHCP seems to filter it prematurely. Whilst setting IP & netmask manually works around this issue it is inconvenient for users. And yes... it is a bit of a hack that became common rather than one that was designed and RFC'ed afaik ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1324395100.10742.39.camel@olympa.profitbricks.localdomain
