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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:57:15 +0100
From: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of route command
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Tom Judge wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While making some changes to the routing table on one of our routers 
> today I noticed that "route add" was showing some strange behaviour. 
> When adding a route for 128/8 to the table rather than adding 
> 128.0.0.0/8 it would add 0.0.0.0/8, however adding 10/9 works correctly.
>
> Is this a bug in route or the routing table?

Run 'route -nv monitor' in another shell while you do this and post the 
output to this list so someone can get more of a handle on it.

BMS