route get fails

[Pawel Pekala]

Hi,

For some time now I get this:

[corn:~]> route get
route: writing to routing socket: Invalid argument

Is this just my build or anyone can confirm this?

[Kimmo Paasiala]

Post by Pawel Pekala
Hi,
[corn:~]> route get
route: writing to routing socket: Invalid argument
Is this just my build or anyone can confirm this?
--
pozdrawiam / with regards
Paweł Pękala

Nothing wrong there, you're not providing a required argument that is
the destination IP address. In my opinion route(8) should return a
proper error message in this case. OS X route(8) behaves exactly the
same BTW.

-Kimmo

[Joe Holden]

Post by Kimmo Paasiala

Post by Pawel Pekala
Hi,
[corn:~]> route get
route: writing to routing socket: Invalid argument
Is this just my build or anyone can confirm this?
--
pozdrawiam / with regards
Paweł Pękala

Nothing wrong there, you're not providing a required argument that is
the destination IP address. In my opinion route(8) should return a
proper error message in this case. OS X route(8) behaves exactly the
same BTW.
-Kimmo

You probably want netstat -rnfinet[6] here, judging from your surprise
that 'route get' returns the above.

[Kurt Jaeger]

Hi!

Post by Pawel Pekala
[corn:~]> route get
route: writing to routing socket: Invalid argument
Is this just my build or anyone can confirm this?

A patch for route to display a more useful error message:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=181532