From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754921AbaBDShP (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Feb 2014 13:37:15 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.220.46]:39585 "EHLO mail-pa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751056AbaBDShL (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Feb 2014 13:37:11 -0500 Message-ID: <52F13350.2020300@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 00:07:04 +0530 From: sohny thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com, Sohny Thomas , netdev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, davem@davemloft.net, kumuda Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: default route for link local address is not added while assigning a address References: <52E8A2AA.3090507@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <52E8DA37.7010208@6wind.com> <20140130232909.GH25336@order.stressinduktion.org> <52EF42FF.60907@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <52EFB454.1040908@6wind.com> <20140203160838.GA17999@order.stressinduktion.org> <52EFC324.1030102@6wind.com> In-Reply-To: <52EFC324.1030102@6wind.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 03 February 2014 09:56 PM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote: >> 4) make flush not remove the fe80::/64 address >> >> Least favourable to me. I guess this also woud need iproute change >> and seems most difficult to do. > Why using this command 'ip -6 route flush proto static' isn't possible? Ok I tried this and it works fine ( i.e, leaves out removing Link Local route), but I think this is a workaround to a problem that occurs if anyone actually deletes a Link local route > I think that we know what kind of route is added for these TAHI tests, > hence > it's better to remove only routes added manually (or by a routing daemon if > it's the case). > Removing kernel routes may hide bugs: imagine the kernel adds a wrong > route, > TAHI will not detect it.