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Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:21:09 +0300
From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9573@gmx.com>
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Subject: Re: Routes to local addresses through lo0 on 8.0-BETA4
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Sergey Listopad wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On  8.0-BETA4 gate I see than in routing table are number of "routes"
> (link# records) through lo0 for some local addresses:
> 
> hole> netstat -rnfinet | grep lo0
> 127.0.0.1          link#7             UH          0    30764    lo0
> 172.22.254.10      link#7             UHS         0        0    lo0
> 192.168.253.254    link#7             UHS         0        0    lo0

> 
> Is it normal.
> On older FreeBSD I see link# records only for network prefix.
> 

Yes, it is normal. It's one of the user-visible changes from
the ARP and NDP rewrite in 8.0.

Nikos