Re: Question: Gateway address == 0

Tuomas Heino (iheino@cc.hut.fi)
Mon, 10 Apr 2000 19:21:13 +0300 (EET DST)


On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:

> OK. Then Linux needs fixing: The message which started this thread (sorry,
> I haven't got it handy) claimed that one could configure a interface with
> host 0. I just did so (linux-2.2.15pre17 on i686):
...
> Wouldn't know where to start to fix it, sorry. ifconfig clearly can't be
> blamed, the kernel must forbid illegal configurations.

Sure go ahead and break things like bootp/dhcp - we really want to have
those hd-less thingies to have a more complex bootup sequence ;)

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