From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 10 11:26:38 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA00343 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 11:26:38 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA00337 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 11:26:35 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA13067; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 14:11:02 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 14:11:02 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9501101911.AA13067@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: The routes from hell In-Reply-To: References: Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < default ISDN UGSc 2 1406 ed0 > slip-23-5.ots.ut ISDN UGHW 2 1669 ed0 > cs.utexas.edu ISDN UGHW3 0 734 ed0 > The second entry is for an active socket. The last is representative of the > many that have been closed for some time. It will go away precisely four hours after the last close. You can adjust this timeout using the command: sysctl -w net.inet.ip.rtexpire=some-number-of-seconds See /sys/netinet/in_rmx.c for the code that implements this. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant