From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jun 29 9:41:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mh.acorn.co.uk (mh.acorn.co.uk [136.170.131.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45899154C3 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 09:41:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kbracey@e-14.com) Received: from kbracey (kbracey [136.170.129.213]) by mh.acorn.co.uk (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id RAA17090 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:41:02 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:41:00 +0100 From: Kevin Bracey To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Old IP addresses hanging around in routes Message-ID: <4cf1d91949%kbracey@kbracey.acorn.co.uk> In-Reply-To: X-Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom X-Mailer: Messenger v1.40f for RISC OS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Posting-Agent: RISC OS Newsbase 0.61b Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message Julian Elischer wrote: > you have a point and I admit that I can't remember exactly what I do in > this case. what about: > > ifconfig eh0 10.0.4.1 > route add default 10.0.0.1 > ifconfig eh0 down delete > > now what about the default route? > Still through 10.0.0.1, in the absence of any other information. If the interface comes back up, it will still be there. When we come to use the route with the interface down, we will find that we can't actually get to 10.0.0.1 so will have to back out. How this would be implemented is less clear. What did 4.3BSD do in this case? -- Kevin Bracey, Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology plc Tel: +44 (0) 1223 725228 645 Newmarket Road Fax: +44 (0) 1223 725328 Cambridge, CB5 8PB, United Kingdom WWW: http://www.acorn.co.uk/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message