Subject: Re: inp_ialink, et al, garbage?
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/23/2003 19:16:47
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:57:08AM +1000, matthew green wrote:
>
> Speaking of overhead...
>
> After itojun "#if 0"ed the closing of sockets when an address is deleted
> (whicih I agree with), the machinery to maintain the per-address socket lists
> seems to be strictly unnecessary. Nothing is done with this information now.
>
>
> so, i dunno that i agree with this change. it ends up leaving stale
> entries in my routing table that i end up having to manually remove
> before i can use my network again.
>
> eg, i insert a cardbus ethernet, get an IP configured, time passes,
> the card is ejected and later i may connect via a wireless and i
> can not talk to the wired ethernet subnet anymore because i still
> have a network route for it that now points to "lo0".
I would not expect the route to your ethernet to change to lo0. Why
doesn't the route just go away, instead?
Dave
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