24.02.2018 20:04, Eugene Grosbein wrote: >> But deleting the loopback route manually does not work anymore, is this >> intended behaviour ? >> >> I would like to control the routing table as much as possible. > > This is side effect of loopback routes being intentionally protected with > RTF_PINNED flag > in recent FreeBSD versions so that link routes can override ones installed by > routing daemons. > > Perhaps, ifconfig(8) utility should be extended to use RTF_PINNED to be able > to modify such routes.
I mean, route(8). Please try this patch that restores its ability to manually remove such routes. Index: sbin/route/route.c =================================================================== --- sbin/route/route.c (revision 329903) +++ sbin/route/route.c (working copy) @@ -1535,8 +1535,10 @@ rtmsg(int cmd, int flags, int fib) so[RTAX_IFP].ss_len = sizeof(struct sockaddr_dl); rtm_addrs |= RTA_IFP; } - } else + } else { cmd = RTM_DELETE; + flags |= RTF_PINNED; + } #define rtm m_rtmsg.m_rtm rtm.rtm_type = cmd; rtm.rtm_flags = flags; _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"