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To: Denis Fortin <fortin@zap.zap.qc.ca>
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Subject: Re: Gated is crashing my system! 
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 07:01:51 -0500
From: Jeffrey C Honig <jch@nr-tech.cit.cornell.edu>
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> > I'm having some problems with gated R3_5Alpha9 on a FreeBSD 2.0 system.
> > After operating correctly for some time (1-2 hours), the system crashes
> > after gated tries to remove a route from the kernel when one of the slip
> > lines shuts down.
> 
> I believe that this is exactly the same problem I've been having with
> gated on poterne.mtl.dmr.ca!  The kernel crashes in ip_setmoptions()
> from netinet/ip_output.c...

BSD 4.4 based systems mis-handles some of the IP multicast options
when interface addresses are added or deleted.  Somewhere I have a
hack to fix this, but have not yet seen a good solution.

Jeff