have a machine with at least one nic configured. put the following rpm in the current directory: initscripts-7.31.13.EL-1.i386.rpm initscripts-7.31.15.EL-1.i386.rpm $rpm -q initscripts initscripts-7.31.13.EL-1 $service network stop; service network start $route | grep "^127.0" 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo $service network stop $rpm -Uvh initscripts-7.31.15.EL-1.i386.rpm $service network start $route | grep "^127.0" By the way, "service network restart" behave the same way.
Does this actually affect functionality?
I can't think of any use for sucn entries, but customer asked and I couldn't see that the change was intentional. Now that I got my patch unreversed (doh!), I can see the removal of the `ip route replace' command, and I understand why it was changed (such that multiple interfaces on the same network don't get broken routing tables), so I guess we can just leave it alone.