The following reply was made to PR kern/35196; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, kern-bug-people@NetBSD.org,
	gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/35196: sockets should die if addresses vanish
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:45:13 -0500

 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> writes:
 >> can't be of any further use and that the packets it could send will
 >> never get anywhere and can't be replied to, I think there is something
 >> wrong with leaving things be.
 >
 > We're disagreeing on the "never". You don't know if the IP address that
 > dissapeared will be back or not.
 
 Most of the time you do, in fact, know. Some ISPs will give you your
 PPP address back. If you are using Verizon's EVDO service, you will
 not (except with vanishing probability) see the same address
 twice. That's why I suggested a sysctl.
 
 Perry