From: Joe Buehler <aspam@cox.net>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: source route ignored in favor of local interface
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:27:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DF0F47F.1080502@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D6E928D.6030806@candelatech.com>
Ben Greear wrote:
> You can do this on more modern kernels (2.6.36 and later definately
> works..not sure
> about earlier).
>
> ip rule add pref 512 lookup local
> ip rule del pref 0 lookup local
>
The kernel change for this in later kernels was simple enough -- there
is a flag that prevents deletion of the "local" table rule, just remove
the flag. Here is a patch for 2.6.24.7. The patch for 2.6.27.7 (I am
using both versions) is almost the same.
--- old/net/ipv4/fib_rules.c 2008-01-24 17:58:37.000000000 -0500
+++ new/net/ipv4/fib_rules.c 2011-06-08 14:01:19.000000000 -0400
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@
int err;
err = fib_default_rule_add(&fib4_rules_ops, 0,
- RT_TABLE_LOCAL, FIB_RULE_PERMANENT);
+ RT_TABLE_LOCAL, 0);
if (err < 0)
return err;
err = fib_default_rule_add(&fib4_rules_ops, 0x7FFE,
--- old/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c 2008-01-24 17:58:37.000000000 -0500
+++ new/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c 2011-06-08 14:01:34.000000000 -0400
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@
int err;
err = fib_default_rule_add(&fib6_rules_ops, 0,
- RT6_TABLE_LOCAL, FIB_RULE_PERMANENT);
+ RT6_TABLE_LOCAL, 0);
if (err < 0)
return err;
err = fib_default_rule_add(&fib6_rules_ops, 0x7FFE, RT6_TABLE_MAIN, 0);
Joe Buehler
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-09 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-01 14:57 source route ignored in favor of local interface Joe Buehler
2011-03-01 19:05 ` Chris Friesen
2011-03-01 19:31 ` Joe Buehler
2011-03-02 18:55 ` Ben Greear
2011-06-09 16:27 ` Joe Buehler [this message]
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