Possible regression in ifconfig under7.0 - removes validdefault route

Steven Hartland killing at multiplay.co.uk
Mon Nov 17 14:12:35 PST 2008


Thanks for the confirmation on that its not a regression Jo. It really
is a nasty little bug so I'll raise a PR for it, hopefully someone
with the power will then fix it :)

    Regards
    Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Rhett" <jrhett at netconsonance.com>


> This is a bug in my mind, but it's not a regression.  FreeBSD has done  
> this for at least 10 years now.  If you are changing the IP of an  
> interface, you *must* do a semicolon chained command to a route add  
> default.  It's been true for as long as I can remember.


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