From owner-freebsd-hackers  Sat Apr 14 17:54:21 2001
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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: stupid pet tricks (using ifconfig)
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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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