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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: Fw: [Bug 4554] New: /proc/net/route missing info for 127.0.0.1/8
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 00:41:01 +0200
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Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@oss.sgi.com
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To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
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> Distribution: CentOS 4 (RHEL4)
> Hardware Environment: i686
> Problem Description:
> cat /proc/net/route is missing information for 127.0.0.1/8 network (lo
> interface).  On 2.4 kernels, this info was present (just checked on an old RH7.3
> machine).  It seems to be missing on 2.6 kernels.  Bug?  Feature?  Omission?

2.4.30 doesn't show it:

# route -n
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
172.16.0.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0

And I'd be surprised if it did, it doesn't include other routes
from the local table.

Regards
Patrick