From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 28 02:37:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA04279 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 02:37:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ocean.campus.luth.se (ocean.campus.luth.se [130.240.194.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA04274 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 02:37:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from karpen@localhost) by ocean.campus.luth.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA26707; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 11:47:07 +0200 (MET DST) From: Mikael Karpberg Message-Id: <199704280947.LAA26707@ocean.campus.luth.se> Subject: Re: Getting closer...!!! To: mtaylor@cybernet.com (Mark J. Taylor) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 11:47:06 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: brian@awfulhak.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <33612512.870D2DA7@cybernet.com> from "Mark J. Taylor" at "Apr 25, 97 05:41:38 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Mark J. Taylor: > I've seen FreeBSD reboot when a host route is deleted. > > This is present in all of the FreeBSD versions that I've used, > which is 1.0.2 all the way to 2.2.1-RELEASE. > > This does not happen all of the time, it seems. Just most of > the time. No hang, no panic, just a reboot. :( > > I do not remember the specifics, but it may very well be that > the route has to be entered by hand using 'route add'. It also > may have something to do with still having an ARP table entry > for it, or not having one. I believe that the ARP entry may > have the 'publish' flag set. > > Like I said, I can't really remember anymore. I just try to > not delete host routes anymore. I haven't tested this, but I seem to remember a friend saying FreeBSD was terribly unstable when you use the route command. I think "route add " was a great way of crashing the kernel, for example. /Mikael