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Date:      Thu, 21 Dec 1995 09:58:36 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams), hackers@FreeBSD.org, isp@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: BSD networking code guru needed? 
Message-ID:  <4818.819536316@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Dec 1995 09:20:29 %2B0100." <199512210820.JAA14345@uriah.heep.sax.de> 

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> As Nate Williams wrote:
> > 
> > What *should* happen is the incomplete arp entry and route should be
> > removed from the tables and replaced with the now valid proxy-arp entry.
> 
> I've been noticing this yesterday, too.  Garrett solved the problem
> for the non proxy-arp case right before 2.1 (where a clone route has
> been allocated through the default route, pointing to the ethernet
> interface), but this one here is still broken.  Anyway, the location
> where the clone routes are being killed might be a good spot to check
> for the ARP stuff.

I have seen the same kind of trouble with arp, ipfw and routed.

Basically packets would go another way that what "netstat -rna" would
make you think.

Sometimes I could clear the trouble by zapping all arp-entries.

I stopped using routed and made static routes, and have had no problems since.

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