*- On 9 Feb, Ed Cogburn wrote about "Kernel 2.2.1: SIOCADDRT: Invalid
argument ?"
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>
> After upgrading to the 2.2.1 kernel, I now get an error during
> bootup. I narrowed it to /etc/init.d/network:
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> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> route add -net 127.0.0.0
>
> Its the route command thats generating the "SIOCADDRT: Invalid
> argument". I'm up to date with potato, (I got the kernel deb from
> there) so what could this be?
>
With the new kernel you have to have the netmask option on a
'route add -net' statement. I don't know why I just picked it up from
here or -devel or somewhere else, I can't remember. So you should
modify the line to be 'route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0'
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Brian
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