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Date:      Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:01:06 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        obrien@freebsd.org
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Qing Li <qingli@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r204902 - in head/sys: net netinet
Message-ID:  <201003101301.06583.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100310160858.GC58634@dragon.NUXI.org>
References:  <201003090111.o291Bj79062503@svn.freebsd.org> <201003101050.46696.jhb@freebsd.org> <20100310160858.GC58634@dragon.NUXI.org>

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On Wednesday 10 March 2010 11:08:58 am David O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:50:46AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 March 2010 10:23:39 am David O'Brien wrote:
> > > Hi Qing,
> > > 
> > > This change doesn't seem to work in the common case, and has made the
> > > kernel toxic - with folks unable to connect to 127.0.0.1.  Please back
> > > this out or adjust the change.
> > 
> > Did you try the route.h patch he posted to current@?
> 
> I looked at it, and at the diff of his original commit.  The changes were
> large enough that I don't want to assume his patch takes care of all the
> issues given that patch hasn't been committed verbatim.
> 
> We also have reports of the patch not working in freebsd-current@.

The reports have all said that the patch fixes pinging 127.0.0.1.  The one 
problem report is a different situation involving a VPN tunnel.  Just patch 
your system with the route.h patch for now.

-- 
John Baldwin



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