From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: [RFC] ipv6: don't flush routes when setting loopback down Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:17:36 -0800 Message-ID: References: <4D00F58A.2050307@hp.com> <20101209111611.1d2e6e2b@nehalam> <20101209.122033.183046393.davem@davemloft.net> <20101216132812.2d7fd885@nehalam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Miller , brian.haley@hp.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, maheshkelkar@gmail.com, lorenzo@google.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, stable@kernel.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.232]:40926 "EHLO out02.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751219Ab0LPXRp (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:17:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20101216132812.2d7fd885@nehalam> (Stephen Hemminger's message of "Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:28:12 -0800") Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Stephen Hemminger writes: > When loopback device is being brought down, then keep the route table > entries because they are special. The entries in the local table for > linklocal routes and ::1 address should not be purged. > > This is a sub optimal solution to the problem and should be replaced > by a better fix in future. I will test this and let you know how it goes from my side. I would really like to get a fix for this in before -rc7, as this bug makes the kernel unusable for me. Eric