Bug 32188

Summary:	error in the routing table
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	friant sébastien <sebastien.friant>
Component:	kern	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description friant sébastien 2001-11-22 13:20:00 UTC

an error appears in the routing table of our freebsd computer. we have a directed subnet connected (network 192.168.149.0) and this entry appears sometimes in our freebsd routing table : 
192.168.149.0  ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff : this cause a lot of problem because our machine have trouble to speak with their gateway because of this entry.
the question is : how can the line 
192.168.149.0 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff appears alone in the routing table.

Fix: 

the only solution we find to this probleme is to reboot the machine but it's a very very troubleshooting solution so if somebody can help us ?
How-To-Repeat: ?

Comment 1 Garrett A. Wollman 2001-11-26 19:59:53 UTC

<<On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 05:14:25 -0800 (PST), friant sébastien <sebastien.friant@wanadoo.fr> said:

> the question is : how can the line 
> 192.168.149.0 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff appears alone in the routing table.

This is the historic (pre-standard) broadcast address for this
network.  The routing table entry makes it easier for the kernel to
recognize this address.

-GAWollman

Comment 2 ru freebsd_committer

2001-11-29 07:49:50 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Such routing table entries are pretty much valid.