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Subject: rtsock.c and/or route.c buf 
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>Number:         827
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       System hangs when doing a "route add" command
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    wollman
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Nov 16 14:10:04 PST 1995
>Closed-Date:    Thu Feb 8 08:09:44 PST 1996
>Last-Modified:  Thu Feb  8 08:11:25 PST 1996
>Originator:     Dallas A. Scott
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
The MITRE Corporation
>Environment:

	Nothing special beyond the Release.

>Description:

	The kernel will not allow the execution of a manual
	addition of a route to a link-level gateway.  The kernel
	locks up indefinitely.  The exact same route can be manually
	added to BSDI and NetBSD.

>How-To-Repeat:

	type: route add -iface 255.255.255.255 -link ed0:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

	(Any other route to a link-level gateway has the same effect-I need
	this strange route to do a dhcp implementation. I
	walked through the route utility and it generates the correct
	routing socket message.)

>Fix:
	
	

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->wollman 
Responsible-Changed-By: pst 
Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Feb 7 15:52:07 PST 1996 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: wollman 
State-Changed-When: Thu Feb 8 08:09:44 PST 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
I cannot reproduce this problem: 
root@khavrinen(13)# route add -iface 255.255.255.255 -link ed0:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 
add host 255.255.255.255: gateway ed0:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 
root@khavrinen(14)# netstat -rn 
Routing tables 

Internet: 
Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use     Netif Expire 
[...] 
224/4              link#1             UCS         0        0  
255.255.255.255    ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff  UHLS        0        0       ed0 

>Unformatted:
