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Date:      Thu, 16 Feb 1995 10:15:50 +0100
From:      jg@euronet.nl (Jan_Guldemond)
To:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Hang up
Message-ID:  <199502160915.KAA29751@mail.euronet.nl>

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Hi,

I have a little problem (again...):
When booting BSD, /etc/netstart executes:
route add 224.0.0.0 -netmask 0xf0000000 -interface $hostname

This statement was there from the beginning. The comment says:
set interface for multicasts to default interface
this needs to happen before router discovery

Does anyone know what this route add does. I don't understand what the 
224.0.0.0 stands for... And most important: When executing this statemant 
the system hangs for about 60-70 seconds. After that the system continues 
and the route is added, according to netstat -r

Bye!




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