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 > > > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
