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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: route flush returns an error with FreeBSD 2.1.0-R(CD)
To: john@starfire.mn.org
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 15:58:20 -0700 (PDT)
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> Has anyone else experienced this?  Is there a fix or work-around?  Has
> it been addresses in 2.2?

I get this pretty often with 2.1-R:

  $ route -n flush
  default              192.168.103.1        done
  route: write to routing socket: No such process
  got only -1 for rlen
  $

Can anyone explain?

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