Subject: Re: kern/4827
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 02/05/2001 23:11:31
>On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 12:55:05PM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
>> 	http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=3D4827
>>
>> 	now, what should we do?
>> 	1. ignore icmp redirect if we have RTF_HOST|RTF_STATIC entry.
>> 	   it will not cause the entry to get updated, and can cause
>> 	   lots of icmp redirects.  but since it is the root user who asked
>> 	   for the entry, maybe the kernel shouldn't modify it.
>Hm, is RTF_STATIC what is set, for example, by arp -s .... permanent ?
>In this case, 1. seems ok to me.

	"arp -s foo bar" will add RTF_{UP,HOST,LLINFO,STATIC}.

itojun


itojun[starfruit:~/k/kame/kame/sys/netinet6] SU arp -s 210.160.95.109 0:0:0:0:0:0
itojun[starfruit:~/k/kame/kame/sys/netinet6] arp -n -a                          ? (210.160.95.97) at 00:c0:f6:b0:1c:f5
? (210.160.95.109) at 00:00:00:00:00:00 permanent
? (210.160.95.110) at 00:a0:de:00:34:a7
itojun[starfruit:~/k/kame/kame/sys/netinet6] netstat -rn -f inet
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use    Mtu  Interface
default            210.160.95.110     UGS         4     1158   1500  wi0
127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          2     8623  33228  lo0
210.160.95.96/28   link#14            UC          2        0   1500  wi0
210.160.95.97      00:c0:f6:b0:1c:f5  UHLc        2     3448   1500  wi0
210.160.95.106     127.0.0.1          UGHS        0        0  33228  lo0
210.160.95.109     00:00:00:00:00:00  UHLS        0        0   1500  wi0
210.160.95.110     00:a0:de:00:34:a7  UHLc        1        0   1500  wi0