Subject: strange msg in bootup
Date: Sat, May 22, 1999 at 12:46:47AM +0300
In reply to:Ali Onur UYAR
Quoting Ali Onur UYAR([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 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
Very good troubleshooting! It is a 'feature' of the 2.2.x kernels.
The kennel now does the routing itself so the route command in the
network script isn't needed.
Here is how I changed my /etc/init.d/network script to handle it
if [ $(uname -r |grep 2.0) ]; then
/sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.0
ifconfig ppp ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast
${BROADCAST}
/sbin/route add -net ${NETWORK} netmask ${NETMASK}
else
/sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} broadcast ${BROADCAST} netmask ${NETMASK}
##### /sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 dev lo
fi
Hope This Helps
Wayne
--
There are two ways to write error-free programs. Only the third one works.
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Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
