Re: ARP: arp called for own IP address

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 10 Apr 1996 22:11:16 +0100 (BST)

> the routing code: we should instead add the routes to devices
> automatically when creating the devices with ifconfig. That would
> actually clean up the routing code somewhat: right now the IP routing
> looks at the device address as a special case, even though it would be
> cleaner to have a special _entry_ for that address.

And if we put the automatic route add/del in the usermode binary then
people with misuses for not adding it can avoid it. Nice.

Alan