The route command now requires a netmask. Just add one in to both of the
route commands and it should go away.
--Dano
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ali Onur UYAR [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 5:47 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: strange msg in bootup
>
> I have been using Linux for a year. I started with hamm and now I am using
> slink.
> I was running kernel 2.0.36 until last week.
> Then decided it was the time to tackle sound config.
> Then I realized it might had been a bit easier if I switched to 2.2 series
> kernels.
> Read a great deal of docs, installed the kernel 2.2.9 using
> kernel-package and
> it worked!
> Then I configured the sound card, configuring the Soundblaster Vibra16pnp
> troubled
> me a great deal, but everything was fine in the end.
>
> Now the problem is that I have recognized a strange message during boot
> up, and
> I am not
> exactly sure if it is related to this final upgrade.
> Just after the local file systems are mounted, a message is displayed on
> the
> console:
> SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument
> SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument
>
> Hunted around in /etc/rcS.d for some time and discovered that the message
> was
> displayed while
> the file /etc/rcS.d/S40network was being executed.
> Placing some echo commands here and there I tracked down the problem to
> the
> invocations of
> the route command.
>
> Doesn't seem to be a serious problem, as everything seems to be working,
> but
> what may be the
> cause for such an error msg, can anybody help. I do not have any
> experience with
> routing issues.
>
> Following is a listing of my /etc/rcS.d/S40network file, hope it will
> help:
>
> #! /bin/sh
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> route add -net 127.0.0.0
> IPADDR=144.122.246.42
> NETMASK=255.255.252.0
> NETWORK=144.122.244.0
> BROADCAST=144.122.247.255
> GATEWAY=144.122.246.1
> ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
> route add -net ${NETWORK}
> [ "${GATEWAY}" ] && route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
>
>
>
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