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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers),
        scrappy@ki.net (Marc G. Fournier)
Subject: Re: PPP routing problem 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Apr 96 15:09:02 PDT."
             <199604112209.AAA06535@uriah.heep.sax.de> 
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:02:22 PDT
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <199604112209.AAA06535@uriah.heep.sax.de> you write:
>The only workaround i've found for it by now (short of understanding
>the routing code in the kernel) was to run ``arp -d'' for this IP
>address in the ip-up script, and retrying the ifconfig.  This still
>leaves a minor window where a new incoming packet for this IP address
>could trigger another ARP attempt.

As of rev1.23 / rev1.13.4.2 of in_rmx.c, interface routes will remove
unfinished ARP entries as they are installed, leaving no such window.

  Bill