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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: pimreg zombies
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 12:08:22 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 22:12:34 +0100

> I am writing a multicast pim daemon and noticed that if I call 
> setsockopt(MRT_ADD_VIF), also occurs for IPv6 too, incorrectly on a 
> socket established with socket(AF_INET, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_PIM)[1] then 
> when the application quits I have zombie pimreg (and pimreg6) interfaces 
> that can only be disposed of with a reboot.

Thanks for this report, I'll take a look.