kern/105945: Address can disappear from network interface

[Bruce M Simpson]

The following reply was made to PR kern/105945; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce M Simpson <bms at incunabulum.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/105945: Address can disappear from network interface
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:04:45 +0000

 I can reproduce these results as provided by Yar on -CURRENT from 3rd 
 February 2007.
 
 the ifconfig parser grammar will allow this behaviour.
 it screams race condition -- this would allow ifconfig to set the 
 address on what appears to be the dying clone.