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Subject: What are the rules for ref counting of routes?
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Howdy,

I'm working out some issues in the neighbor discovery code for IPv6
and there is a ref counting issue.  Can someone state clearly the
rules around when a route gets a reference added and when it is
removed?

Thanks,
George