Subject: Re: standards/5645: No answer from 0.0.0.0
To: None <netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 06/25/1998 00:34:41
> bug 1) [...]
>     2) interfaces can't be named by name in 'route add -iface ifname".
> 	one has to look up the interface's primary address with ifconfig
> 	and then use that as the arg to "route add"

Which doesn't work if two interfaces have the same primary address.
(This happens most frequently with a point-to-point interface like sl0
or ppp0 clashing with a LAN interface like le0 or ie0, but it's not
resetricted to that.)

					der Mouse

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