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Date:      Sat, 09 May 1998 23:13:19 -0600
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Have I left something out?
Message-ID:  <3555376F.7FBAA205@softweyr.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980507000100.28178B-100000@current1.whistle.com>

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Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 7 May 1998, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote:
> 
> > #define quoting(Richard Wackerbarth)
> > // However on the machine which has the point of failure, even though the
> > // interface is marked "down", it still insists that that is THE route to
> > // any machines which would be on that net.
> 
> This is a known bug and there are fixes for it floating around
> but none are really 'correct'
> 

"The Right Way" to fix it is with a function that walks the route table
and deletes all the routes whose ifp points to the ifnet being detached.
I haven't had time to poke into the FreeBSD sources yet.  If nobody else
gets this, I'll look into it as soon as I get my plate cleared at work
a bit.

-- 
       "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                 Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr                      wes@softweyr.com

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