Re: Question: Gateway address == 0

[Rik van Riel]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Tuomas Heino wrote:
> 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 ;)

FYI:  I'm currently working to have swap-over-network work
cleanly and reliably, both for 2.2 and 2.3/2.4. I'll make
sure at least nbd is supported, nfs will be done only if it
can be supported more or less cleanly :)

(but a stateless swap protocol should be done so people can
mount / from a NFS server cluster and have their swap HA too)

regards,

Rik
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