On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 07:46:05PM +0100, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> hi hackers!
> 
> i just updated to 4.5-S and my gif0 tunnel stopped working. the reason
> is the following:
> o before (= 4.4-S) i used
>   route add -inet6 default -interface gif0
> o now (= 4.5-S) i need to do
>   route add -inet6 default <ipv6-ptp-peer-addr>
> 
> when using the old setting, the system won't notice incoming packets,
> i.e. there will be a SYN-ACK but no reply; the ACK is being ignored;
> system continues to send SYNs.
> 
> i believe this behavior is not desired: man route explicitely allows
> using the iface name if it is a point to point interface.
> 
> is this a bug or some special feature?
> if bug i'm gonna file a pr when i got time to do so.

It's a bug :-/
Please see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin%2F35017 for this.
and the thread in
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=279914+284924+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-hackers/20020217.freebsd-hackers
and
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=167189+172081+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-net/20020217.freebsd-net

Jinmei Tatuya, who is in the Kame project, has asked for more
information regarding it. I hope he will come back soon to us about
it.

Edwin

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