Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:26:11 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <daniel.sobral@tcoip.com.br> Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RTM_INFO Message-ID: <20010816162611.G73183@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <3B7BC5CE.7040906@tcoip.com.br>; from daniel.sobral@tcoip.com.br on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 10:08:30AM -0300 References: <3B7BC5CE.7040906@tcoip.com.br>
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 10:08:30AM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Another question... when the interface goes up and an RTM_INFO message s/RTM_INFO/RTM_IFINFO > is generated, shouldn't the interface addresses be passed? > Why? In the down/up event, only interface's status changes: : # route -vn monitor : got message of size 124 on Thu Aug 16 16:19:12 2001 : RTM_DELETE: Delete Route: len 124, pid: 0, seq 0, errno 0, flags:<HOST,LOCAL> : locks: inits: : sockaddrs: <DST,GATEWAY> : 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 : : got message of size 116 on Thu Aug 16 16:19:12 2001 : RTM_DELADDR: address being removed from iface: len 116, metric 0, flags:<UP> : sockaddrs: <NETMASK,IFP,IFA,BRD> : (0) 0 ff lo0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 : : got message of size 96 on Thu Aug 16 16:19:12 2001 : RTM_IFINFO: iface status change: len 96, if# 3, flags:<LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> : : got message of size 116 on Thu Aug 16 16:21:02 2001 : RTM_NEWADDR: address being added to iface: len 116, metric 0, flags: : sockaddrs: <NETMASK,IFP,IFA,BRD> : (0) 0 ff lo0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 : : got message of size 124 on Thu Aug 16 16:21:02 2001 : RTM_ADD: Add Route: len 124, pid: 0, seq 0, errno 0, flags:<UP,HOST,LOCAL> : locks: inits: : sockaddrs: <DST,GATEWAY> : 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 : : got message of size 96 on Thu Aug 16 16:21:02 2001 : RTM_IFINFO: iface status change: len 96, if# 3, flags:<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> The first three are from ``ifconfig lo0 down'', and first two of them are from in_ifscrub() which deletes interface route. The last three are from ``ifconfig lo0 up'', and first two of them are from in_ifinit() which adds interface route. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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