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Date:      Sun, 15 Apr 2001 02:52:52 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
To:        Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: stupid pet tricks (using ifconfig)
Message-ID:  <200104150052.CAA00221@info.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010414192404.01ec0dd0@mail.etinc.com> from Dennis at "Apr 14, 2001 07:27:21 pm"

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> viewing ifconfig shows the new address. HOWEVER, pinging 100.1.1.99, the 
> freebsd machine sends out 100.1.1.1, the OLD address.
> 
> Is this cached/saved somewhere and not getting cleaned up?

in the routing table, apparently. If you do a "route -n get"
for the destination address you see the old one.

Manually flushing the relevant entries in the routing table
does the job (yes it is a bug, it should happen automatically,
and it is not 4.2 specific, it has been there forever)

	cheers
	luigi


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