Re: Changing the default subnet route.

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <1228431593.949.8.camel%uberpc.marples.name@localhost>,
Roy Marples  <roy%marples.name@localhost> wrote:
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>Following up with a test case which shows what I think is a kernel bug.
>I've tested this on NetBSD-4.0.1, 5.0BETA and 5.99.4 - all the same.
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># ifconfig re0 alias 192.168.1.10/24
># ifconfig ral0 alias 192.168.1.20/24
># route change 192.168.1.0/24 -ifp ral0
>change net 192.168.1.0
># ifconfig re0 -alias 192.168.1.10/24
># ifconfig re0 alias 192.168.1.10/24
>ifconfig: SIOCAIFADDR: File exists
># ifconfig re0
>re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 1 mtu
>1500
>capabilities=3f80<TSO4,IP4CSUM_Rx,IP4CSUM_Tx,TCP4CSUM_Rx,TCP4CSUM_Tx,UDP4CSUM_Rx,UDP4CSUM_Tx>
>enabled=0
>address: 00:50:8d:bb:da:f8
>media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
>status: active
>inet6 fe80::250:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
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>As you can now see, it's impossible to add or remove any address in the
>192.168.1.0/24 range to re0 until the subnet route itself is removed.
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>If this is NOT considered to be a kernel bug then could someone please
>tell me how I should go about changing the connected route (as it's
>described in the source)?
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>Attached is a simple shell test program.
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>Thanks
>
>Roy

Send-pr please.

christos