On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 17:16 -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost> > wrote: > > Or are you implying that userland should never install, modify or delete > > an automatic subnet route? > > > of course not... just that the error is there for something. Ignoring > it at the kernel level is not the best things to do. The for loop above ignores the error for automatic routes already added to same subnet. Why should manually added routes be excluded from this? That is the source of the error. > Couldn't it be > possible to make the error available (or check for this case) before > it's too late and act in consequence ? How? The code to add and/or remove the IP address now fails. The only fix (that I found) is to remove all addresses and routes relating to the subnet and starting over which is hardly optimal. Thanks Roy
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