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Date:      Sun, 14 Jun 1998 13:40:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        peter@netplex.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: if_simloop: can't handle af=0 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980614133916.6386E-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199806142002.NAA07854@austin.polstra.com>

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I'm still looking at  this



On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, John Polstra wrote:

> In article <199806140927.RAA03185@spinner.netplex.com.au>,
> Peter Wemm  <peter@netplex.com.au> wrote:
> > Warner Losh wrote:
> > > In message <Pine.GSO.3.96.980613234028.17153A-100000@echonyc.com> Snob Art Ge
> >     nre writes:
> > > : My -current kernel from about 2 this afternoon seems to be falling
> > > : through the switch statement in net/if_loop.c to the default label --
> > > : the address family variable is apparently set to 0 (AF_UNSPEC?). 
> > > 
> > > I'm seeing the same thing on my laptop (a libretto with an 3C589D).
> > 
> > It would seem that something is trying to transmit to an address that
> > doesn't have an address...
> 
> No, it was coming from the ARP code, where the address family was
> explicitly being set to AF_UNSPEC.  I think (but didn't check
> carefully) that the address at that point is a link-level address.
> --
>    John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
>    John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
>    "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth
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