Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 11:47:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> To: mtaylor@cybernet.com (Mark J. Taylor) Cc: brian@awfulhak.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting closer...!!! Message-ID: <199704280947.LAA26707@ocean.campus.luth.se> In-Reply-To: <33612512.870D2DA7@cybernet.com> from "Mark J. Taylor" at "Apr 25, 97 05:41:38 pm"
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According to Mark J. Taylor: > I've seen FreeBSD reboot when a host route is deleted. > > This is present in all of the FreeBSD versions that I've used, > which is 1.0.2 all the way to 2.2.1-RELEASE. > > This does not happen all of the time, it seems. Just most of > the time. No hang, no panic, just a reboot. :( > > I do not remember the specifics, but it may very well be that > the route has to be entered by hand using 'route add'. It also > may have something to do with still having an ARP table entry > for it, or not having one. I believe that the ARP entry may > have the 'publish' flag set. > > Like I said, I can't really remember anymore. I just try to > not delete host routes anymore. I haven't tested this, but I seem to remember a friend saying FreeBSD was terribly unstable when you use the route command. I think "route add <ip nr> <ethernet nr>" was a great way of crashing the kernel, for example. /Mikael
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