On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:57:08AM +1000, matthew green wrote:
   > 
   >    Speaking of overhead...
   >    
   >    After itojun "#if 0"ed the closing of sockets when an address is deleted 
   >    (whicih I agree with), the machinery to maintain the per-address socket lists 
   >    seems to be strictly unnecessary.  Nothing is done with this information now.
   > 
   > 
   > so, i dunno that i agree with this change.  it ends up leaving stale
   > entries in my routing table that i end up having to manually remove
   > before i can use my network again.
   > 
   > eg, i insert a cardbus ethernet, get an IP configured, time passes,
   > the card is ejected and later i may connect via a wireless and i
   > can not talk to the wired ethernet subnet anymore because i still
   > have a network route for it that now points to "lo0".
   
   I would not expect the route to your ethernet to change to lo0. Why
   doesn't the route just go away, instead?


i don't know.  next time it happens i will send-pr details.  i
know that i'm not the only one that sees this problem (i talked
about it with some folks at bsdcon.)


.mrg.