Re: [PATCH 06/14] net: fix ipv6 routing

[Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>]

11.02.2016 00:21, Josef Bacik пишет:
> ipv6 routing in grub2 is broken, we cannot talk to anything outside our local
> network or anything that doesn't route in our global namespace.  This patch
> fixes this by doing a couple of things
> 
> 1) Read the router information off of the router advertisement.  If we have a
> router lifetime we need to take the source address and create a route from it.
> 
> 2) Changes the routing stuff slightly to allow you to specify a gateway _and_ an
> interface.  Since the router advertisements come in on the link local address we
> need to associate it with the global address on the card.  So when we are
> processing the router advertisement, either use the SLAAC interface we create
> and add the route to that interface, or loop through the global addresses we
> currently have on our interface and associate it with one of those addresses.
> We need to have a special case here for the default route so that it gets used,
> we do this by setting the masksize to 0 to mean it encompasses all networks.
> The routing code will automatically select the best route so if there is a
> closer match we will use that.
> 
> With this patch I can now talk to ipv6 addresses outside of my local network.
> Thanks,
> 

Committed. Thanks!