tech-net: Re: Problems with in_addprefix not adding a prefix and notifying the routing socket

Subject: Re: Problems with in_addprefix not adding a prefix and notifying the routing socket
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 09/17/2001 08:28:10

>> This may be due to the way this interface/route is setup: initially (with no
>> PPP connection) the interface is assigned the address 0.0.0.1
>Oh, I see: this is because of the remote address is not updated and stays
>at 0.0.0.1, matching the 127.0.0.1/0xff00000 routing entry?
>So fixing if_spppsubr.c to update the remote address during IPCP negotiation
>and maybe restoring it to 0.0.0.1 (i.e. the saved original one) later should
>fix this, IIUC.
>Am I correct?

	I don't think there's a behavior difference in 1.5 and current
	with respect to routing socket messages.  are there?

itojun