Hello,
I experienced a strange (and in my opinion unexpected) behavior from DynamicStore/configd.
In our application we setup the routes in the system by setting AdditionalRoutes property on a specific interface to route part of the network traffic through it.
The routes are set properly, but I noticed that the they are not cleared once removed from AdditionalRoutes. After a while I figured, that the problem lies in the DestinationAddress I set in AdditionalRoutes. I was using the following configuration:
var newRoutes: [[String: NSObject]] = [
["DestinationAddress": "10.0.0.1" as NSObject,
"SubnetMask": "255.0.0.0" as NSObject ]
]
and it resulted in a new route:
10 link#16 UCS en0 !
which was not cleared when AdditionalRoutes were reset to the original value. When I changed the DestinationAddress to:
var newRoutes: [[String: NSObject]] = [
["DestinationAddress": "10.0.0.0" as NSObject,
"SubnetMask": "255.0.0.0" as NSObject ]
]
both, setting and clearing routes works as expected. The only difference is changing the DestinationAddress from 10.0.0.1 to 10.0.0.1.
In my opinion this incosistent behavior. Although I can understand that the system might reject 10.0.0.1 as a valid DestinationAddress for creating routes, I don't think it's correct behavior to accept such address, but never clear the routes.
The full source code which might be used to verify my claims:
import Foundation
import SystemConfiguration
let en0ServiceIPv4 = "State:/Network/Service/***/IPv4" as CFString
let store = SCDynamicStoreCreate(nil, "dseditor" as CFString, nil, nil)!
let originalValue = SCDynamicStoreCopyValue(store, en0ServiceIPv4) as! [String: NSObject]
var newValue = originalValue
print("AdditionalRoutes: \(String(describing: originalValue["AdditionalRoutes"]))")
var newRoutes: [[String: NSObject]] = [
["DestinationAddress": "10.0.0.1" as NSObject,
"SubnetMask": "255.0.0.0" as NSObject ]
]
newValue["AdditionalRoutes"] = newRoutes as NSObject
print("newValue: \(newValue)")
var result = SCDynamicStoreSetValue(store, en0ServiceIPv4, newValue as CFPropertyList)
print("set new value: \(result)")
sleep(3)
result = SCDynamicStoreSetValue(store, en0ServiceIPv4, originalValue as CFPropertyList)
print("restore old value: \(result)")
Naturally, the en0ServiceIPv4 needs to be changed and the program needs to be run as root.
Can you please share your thoughts, if this is an OS bug or expected behavior? If it is expected, what is the reasoning behind it?