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Date:      Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:46:49 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>
To:        Andre Oppermann <oppermann@telehouse.ch>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 303,000 routes in kernel
Message-ID:  <20010803114648.A2565@cicely20.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <3B69CE3F.1BCCB280@telehouse.ch>; from oppermann@telehouse.ch on Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:03:43AM %2B0200
References:  <3B69CE3F.1BCCB280@telehouse.ch>

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On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:03:43AM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> The problem I've got now is that for every packet I get the kernel is
> making one host entry in the routing table. Because of the many UDP
> DNS requests from all over the world I've got 303'000 (yes, three-
> hundredthreethousand) entries in the kernel routing table which have
> not expired yet. So I'm getting error messages like this now:

Are you shure that these are not created via redirects when sending
the packet?
You might try to disable acepting redirects via sysctl and/or
setting the routes so that packets have a better chance to be send
to the right router.

-- 
B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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