From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 21 01:00:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA22673 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 01:00:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([140.145.230.252]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA22640 Thu, 21 Dec 1995 01:00:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA04820; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 09:58:36 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost.tfs.com didn't use HELO protocol To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) cc: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams), hackers@FreeBSD.org, isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSD networking code guru needed? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 Dec 1995 09:20:29 +0100." <199512210820.JAA14345@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 09:58:36 +0100 Message-ID: <4818.819536316@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > As Nate Williams wrote: > > > > What *should* happen is the incomplete arp entry and route should be > > removed from the tables and replaced with the now valid proxy-arp entry. > > I've been noticing this yesterday, too. Garrett solved the problem > for the non proxy-arp case right before 2.1 (where a clone route has > been allocated through the default route, pointing to the ethernet > interface), but this one here is still broken. Anyway, the location > where the clone routes are being killed might be a good spot to check > for the ARP stuff. I have seen the same kind of trouble with arp, ipfw and routed. Basically packets would go another way that what "netstat -rna" would make you think. Sometimes I could clear the trouble by zapping all arp-entries. I stopped using routed and made static routes, and have had no problems since. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.