Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 16:48:16 +0200 From: Thomas Quinot <thomas@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/71474: route lookup does not skip interfaces marked down Message-ID: <20040908144816.GJ22578@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <200409081350.i88DoW4e093128@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200409081350.i88DoW4e093128@freefall.freebsd.org>
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* Ruslan Ermilov, 2004-09-08 :
> This is a misconfiguration because you cannot expect two broadcast
> interfaces configured with the same IP network to work. The fact
Even if one of them is down??
> If we change ifa_ifwith*() to ignore !IFF_UP interfaces, I suspect this
> will break too many things.
I agree, which is why I suggested a different function, not a change to
the existing one (of course both the specific implementation and the
existing ifa_ifwith* could be wrappers around a single generic
function).
> to set the interface of the route to the interface of its gateway (if
> route is through the gateway (RTF_GATEWAY)). This should be easy to
> fix, but I don't have a time for this now.
Agreed.
Thomas.
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