routing message problem

[Michael Tüxen]

Hi Qing,

your patch fixes the issue.
Will it find its way into 8.0?
Will it find its way into 7.3?

Best regards
Michael

On Aug 28, 2009, at 7:24 PM, Li, Qing wrote:

>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> via a bug report from Preethi I figured out that there are no
>> RTM_NEWADDR
>> routing messages generated when an IP address is added to an  
>> interface
>> and there is already an address in the same network configured.
>> This is a problem for the SCTP stack.
>>
>> To reproduce the problem you can
>> sudo ifconfig em0 192.168.1.1
>> sudo ifconfig em0 192.168.1.2 alias
>>
>> and use the attached problem. It will only show the first address
>> being added. This problem applies to FreeBSD 9.0 CURRENT and 7.2
>> RELEASE.
>>
>> Any idea how to fix the problem?
>>
>
>
>  Please try my patch (not the final version) at
>
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~qingli/patch-8-28-rtmsg.diff
>
>
>  I have tested it and seems to work as expected. You should
>  get the notifications for both address insertion ("alias")
>  and deletion ("-alias").
>
>  Let me know if it's to your satisfaction.
>
>  I found a couple of other issues while looking over the code.
>
>  1. in_scrubprefix() is called unnecessarily in 2 locations
>  2. the loopback host route is not removed for an alias
>
>  On a related note, in.c can use some code cleanup. I think
>  I will do that post 8.0 release.
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  -- Qing
>
>