route malfunction wrong info

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jun 6 06:54:04 PDT 2006


On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 09:13:15PM +0200, Tyrone.VanDerHaar at TelecityRedbus.se wrote:
T> Can anyone tell me if this is a bug or not?
T> -Vlan137 is up
T> -I issue an ifconfig vlan137 down
T> -I then issue route get (subnet on the downed interface) and is show it as up

Yes, this is known behavior of BSD kernel.

I'm not sure whether kernel should rebuild routing table if interface
status changes. However, routing daemons should.

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