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Re: dhcpcd 6.11.3 core dumps on FreeBSD with link disconnect/connect sequence

Roy Marples

Sat Sep 03 14:29:08 2016

On Saturday 03 September 2016 13:05:09 Guy Yur wrote:
> Some other unrelated issues I saw:
> 1. When two SIOCAIFADDR_IN6 ioctls are done, one for
> ND6_INFINITE_LIFETIME and then the real lifetime, there are
> nd6_dad_timer messages printed from the kernel.
> "ndp -p" shows the prefix has infinity time and ifconfig shows
> the address has time from RA so they are added fine.
> 
> "nd6_dad_timer: called with non-tentative address
> NNNN:NNNN:NNNN:NNNN:AAAA:AAAA:AAAA:AAAA(em0)"
> 
> 
> 2. On link disconnect/reconnect the kernel complains on prefix delete
> failure when deleting the address because dhcpcd already removed the
> interface route.
> 
> "in_scrubprefix: err=51, prefix delete failed"
> ENETUNREACH from rtinit1 when not found in the table?

It's because the FreeBSD kernel expects to handle the routing from RA messages 
and complains loudly when userland does the job instead.

From my basic research, these are just warnings and don't cause anything bad 
as such so can be safely ignored.

Roy

References:
dhcpcd 6.11.3 core dumps on FreeBSD with link disconnect/connect sequenceGuy Yur
Re: dhcpcd 6.11.3 core dumps on FreeBSD with link disconnect/connect sequenceRoy Marples
Re: dhcpcd 6.11.3 core dumps on FreeBSD with link disconnect/connect sequenceGuy Yur
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