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Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru>
Subject: Re: lost routes
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Giulio Ferro wrote:
>  
> There are no messages in the logs, and no interface has been
> touched. Anyway, since there are a lot of routes and only one
> gets deleted I don't think it depends on interface changing
> (it would delete them all, wouldn't it?)

Normally static routes only get touched if the state of the underlying 
ifp/ifa changes. There are paths in netinet which will cause routes to 
be deleted in this situation.

Occasionally the idea of a floating static re-surfaces... look in the PR 
database with this term for possibly related reports.

cheers
BMS