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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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