Re: kern/57037: unncessary and unwarranted RTM_NEWADDR for IPv6 routing messages

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

Am Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 09:25:01AM +0000 schrieb kardel%netbsd.org@localhost:
> >How-To-Repeat:
> 	let NetBSD autoconfigure IPv6 and watch "route monitor".
> 
> RTM_NEWADDR: address being added to iface: len 120, pid 1709, metric 0, addrflags: 0x40<AUTOCONF>
> sockaddrs: 0x34<NETMASK,IFP,IFA>
>  ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:: aa:00:00:00:00:01 xxxx:yyyy:zzzz:rrrr:ssss:tttt:uuuu:vvvv
> got message of size 112 on Fri Sep 30 08:24:57 2022
> #12: len 112, got message of size 120 on Fri Sep 30 08:24:57 2022
> RTM_NEWADDR: address being added to iface: len 120, pid 1709, metric 0, addrflags: 0x40<AUTOCONF>
> sockaddrs: 0x34<NETMASK,IFP,IFA>
>  ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:: aa:00:00:00:00:01 xxxx:yyyy:zzzz:rrrr:ssss:tttt:uuuu:vvvv
> got message of size 112 on Fri Sep 30 08:26:58 2022

So what is the life time of the addresses? Are you sure your network
isn't forcing a renewal every minute?

Joerg