Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc stabilization todo

[Angelo Arrifano <miknix@gentoo.org>]

On Qui, 2009-12-03 at 15:06 +0100, Rémi Cardona wrote:
> Le 03/12/2009 02:22, Jeremy Olexa a écrit :
> > Can parallel init script startup be made the default yet? I've been
> > running with it for months and never noticed a problem..
> 
> I've been running it for more than a year on half a dozen boxes, without 
> any issues as well.
> 
> +1 for making it the default.
> 
> Thanks
> 

I just migrated my laptop to openrc-0.5.2-r2 along with baselayout-2.0.1
and sysvinit-2.87-r1 .
[as user] Everything went smoothly and without problems. I spotted two
things during boot though:

* Autoloaded 0 module(s)
*   device-mapper uses addon code which is deprecated
*   and may not be available in the future.

and

*   Adding routes
*     127.0.0.0/8 via 127.0.0.1...
* Adding static routes...
SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable

Looking at the routing table we have:

Destination Gateway   Genmask   Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
127.0.0.0   -         255.0.0.0 !     0      -   0   -
127.0.0.0   127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 UG    0      0   0   lo

Why do we need a reject route for 127.0.0.0? Packets with destination
127.0.0.0 going through interfaces other than lo aren't dropped anyway?
Does the loopback interface need a gateway set?

Regards,
-- 
Angelo Arrifano AKA MiKNiX
Gentoo Embedded/OMAP850 Developer
Linwizard Developer
http://www.gentoo.org/~miknix
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