Bizzare routing table entry.
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Tue Aug 7 13:43:32 PDT 2007
On Aug 7, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Modulok wrote:
> I have a bizarre entry in the routing table on one my machines. What
> is it, and how do I delete it? The output of "netstat -rnf inet" is
> shown below:
>
> Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use
> Netif Expire
> 0&0xc0a80132 link#1 UCS 0 0 bge0
> 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 557 lo0
> ...
>
> QUESTIONS
> 1. The first entry, it's not IPv4, IPv6 or a MAC address that I've
> ever seen, what format is it?
It looks a default IPv4 route using a non-contiguous netmask. It's
almost certainly the result of running route with the wrong
arguments, rather than something you would intend to do.
> 2. How do I delete it? According to route(8) it is not a "valid
> address" and when I attempt to delete it, route(8) gets very upset:
>
> root# route delete 0&0xc0a80132
>
> [1] 37343
> route: writing to routing socket: No such process
> delete net 0: not in table
> 0xc0a80132: Command not found.
> [1] + Exit 1 route delete 0
The "&" is confusing the shell; you can probably do a "route delete
default" to nuke it.
--
-Chuck
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