From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Francesco Saverio Giudice" Subject: Error on ip route replace command Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:22:01 +0100 Message-ID: <00a701c875a1$58f70fb0$b400a8c0@ASUSFSG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Return-path: Received: from host18-125-static.189-82-b.business.telecomitalia.it ([82.189.125.18]:53338 "EHLO mailserver.infocomsrl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754587AbYBVW2p (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:28:45 -0500 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi All, I have a problem with kernel 2.6.24. Having a running configuration using Shorewall and restarting it I got follow error: RTNETLINK answers: File exists Tom Eastep, Shorewall creator, told me to inform you about the problem. Here is the mail: ------------------------------------------------------------ Francesco Saverio Giudice wrote: > Hi Tom, > > I get the error: > > --------- > # ip route add 1.2.4.5 dev eth3 > # ip route replace 1.2.4.5 dev eth3 > RTNETLINK answers: File exists > --------- > > I have to patch kernel or something else ? > You should report it at netdev@vger.kernel.org (that's where the Linux networking developers hang out). This failure does not occur with kernel 2.6.22 and iproute2 ss070710: gateway:~ # ip route add 1.2.4.5 dev eth0 gateway:~ # ip route replace 1.2.4.5 dev eth0 gateway:~ # ip route del 1.2.4.5 -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key ------------------------------------------------------------ Best Regards Francesco Saverio Giudice