Default route destination changing without warning follow-up

Krzysztof Barcikowski krzysiek at airnet.opole.pl
Thu Oct 4 17:36:55 UTC 2012


W dniu 2012-10-04 18:02, John-Mark Gurney pisze:
> Alexander V. Chernikov wrote this message on Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 01:07 +0400:
>> On 01.10.2012 00:59, Dominic Blais wrote:
>>> It's all about IPv4 in my case.
>> It will be great to supply some more details (e.g. like FreeBSD version,
>> interfaces configuration, netstat -rn output).
>>
>> How often does this happen ?
>> (e.g. while true; do echo -n `date` ; route -n get default | grep gate;
>> sleep 1; done can help)
>>
>> If this is reproducible, what actions precedes this change?
>> Maybe some ARP traffic on that interface, or interface
>> creation/deletion, or.. ?
>>
>> Is route monitor completely silent when the change happens?
> Just for refernece, Dominic brought this up in an earlier thread:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?2DE61B0869B7484997BCA012845482C7EBE62DDD88@WIN2008.Domnt.abi.ca
>
> and at least on other person seems to have the same issue...
>
> quick question for you Dominic, do you see the correct number of routes,
> but a new wrong one appear?  or does the route just simply disapear? or
> does a new one seem to replace the old one?
>
> The reason I ask is that if a new wrong one appears, it could be memory
> corruption, but if a new one replaces the old one, for some reason when
> allocating a new route, it could accidentatlly be replacing the default
> route...
>
> Just some thoughts...
>

Hi,

I don't see a second new route appearing in my case, just the default or 
static route is replaced.
I'm not conviced of memory corruption, as it happens on 3 different 
physical machines.

Best regards!
Krzysiek Barcikowski


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