From owner-freebsd-net Sat May 9 23:54:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA23774 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Sat, 9 May 1998 23:54:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA23757 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 23:54:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA04939; Sat, 9 May 1998 23:42:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd004937; Sun May 10 06:42:17 1998 Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 23:42:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Wes Peters cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Have I left something out? In-Reply-To: <3555376F.7FBAA205@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have such a function it's checked into the tree under the tag WHISTLE_NET1 orr something similar (on a branch) look a the tags and branches on route.c for the actual tag name.. unfortunatly the changes a re far-reaching and have lots of unexpected side effects.. (e.g just deleting rtentries can sometimes lead to odd errors if you don't do it correctly) I hope to get back to it one day (I was actually told by my boss this year that it was on my official list but other things became more important) julian On Sat, 9 May 1998, Wes Peters wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message