On Sun, 27 Mar 2016 16:20:18 +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:

> /etc/netstart has a "route -qn delete 224.0.0.0/4" before it adds
> the multicast reject route:
> 
> 270 # Multicast routing.
> 271 route -qn delete 224.0.0.0/4 >/dev/null 2>&1
> 272 [[ $multicast != YES ]] &&
> 273         route -qn add -net 224.0.0.0/4 -interface 127.0.0.1 -reject >/dev
> /null
> 
> So there's no way to hook in to create the route before daemons start.
> You can't set it in hostname.if because the "route delete" will zap it.
> You can add it in /etc/rc.local but that's a bit late, really. Should
> we just get rid of the "delete"?

That makes sense to me.

 - todd

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