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From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
Subject: Re: kern/4044: kernel crashes when ip_output() is called with a NULL route argument 
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The following reply was made to PR kern/4044; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: owner-bugs@freebsd.org
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, terzis@pear.dnrc.bell-labs.com,
        terzis@cs.ucla.edu
Subject: Re: kern/4044: kernel crashes when ip_output() is called with a NULL route argument 
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 21:18:13 PDT

 Note, this message had a malformed From: header of "terzis@cs..ucla.edu".
 
 >a test for a NULL argument has been removed from this version of the code.
 
 This was a conscious decision.  It's now an error to hand a packet to
 ip_output with a NULL route argument.  Use a private cached route (see
 IGMP for an example).
 
   Bill