routing message problem

[Li, Qing]

Hi Michael,
> 
> your patch fixes the issue.
> Will it find its way into 8.0?
> Will it find its way into 7.3?
> 

Yes, the patch will make its way into 8.0 Release and 7.3, too.

Thanks,

-- Qing


> 
> 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
> >
> >