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From: bzs@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
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Subject: question about /etc/route
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Date: 5 Feb 88 03:28:52 GMT
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I think you want to change:

# route add 128.174.22 mygateway 3

to

# route add 128.174.22.0 mygateway 3

The parsing routine is pretty dumb, give it all four octets. Also,
last I looked it doesn't matter what you pass for that last integer
(3), it's just checked for 0 or not 0 (or if it's not there at all.) I
assume this may change in the future (note: the original question was
specific to Sun/OS, your mileage may vary.)

	-Barry Shein, Boston University