From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 13 10:37:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA14821 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 10:37:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kaori.communique.net (kaori.communique.net [204.27.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA14816 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 10:37:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by kaori.communique.net with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1457.3) id ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:37:14 -0500 Message-ID: From: Raul Zighelboim To: "'hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: maybe a bug ... Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:37:09 -0500 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1457.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I had this: kiyoko:~$ ifconfig de0 de0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 10.4.64.11 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 255.255.255.0 and I did the following: ifconfig de0 10.4.65.11 255.255.255.255 alias .........some 3 hours of activity....... ifconfig de0 10.4.65.11 255.255.255.255 delete and then I tried to connect to 10.4.65.7. I could not. The details: 10.4.64.0/24--------ROUTER------10.4.65.0/24 I have a route on ROUTER '10.4.65.11 ---> 10.4.64.11' netstat -nr show the expected routes, for example: destination GATEWAY 10.4.65.7 x:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx bla bla were x:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx was the ethernet address of ROUTER tcpdump would show that this machine was still using 10.4.65.11 as the source address, even though it was not defined in any of the interfaces.