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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: alessandro.suardi@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: fix fib metrics
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:44:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1301006652.2714.145.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110324.153623.45921344.davem@davemloft.net>

Le jeudi 24 mars 2011 à 15:36 -0700, David Miller a écrit :
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:32:26 +0100
> 
> > Then it doesnt work anymore because it parses an ipip field from
> > ip route get ...
> > 
> > $ ip ro get 192.168.1.1
> > 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0  src 192.168.1.21 
> >     cache  ipid 0x784c mtu 1500 advmss 1460 hoplimit 64
> > 
> > 
> > Maybe you upgraded iproute2
> 
> I'm leaning towards app bug too.
> 
> These default metrics wouldn't get printed before, but now because of
> how metrics are handled, they will.
> 
> Userland needs to cope properly with this.


BTW, ipip is not always printed (even on old kernels) : One needs to
actually need ipip generation .

edumazet@edumazet-laptop:~$ ping 4.4.4.4
PING 4.4.4.4 (4.4.4.4) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C

edumazet@edumazet-laptop:~$ ip ro get 4.4.4.4
4.4.4.4 dev ppp0  src 10.150.51.210 
    cache  mtu 1500 advmss 1460 hoplimit 64

edumazet@edumazet-laptop:~$ ping -s 2000 4.4.4.4
PING 4.4.4.4 (4.4.4.4) 2000(2028) bytes of data.
^C

edumazet@edumazet-laptop:~$ ip ro get 4.4.4.4
4.4.4.4 dev ppp0  src 10.150.51.210 
    cache  ipid 0xf99a mtu 1500 advmss 1460 hoplimit 64


This on a 2.6.35 kernel

I suspect Alessandro tool had a bug anyway.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-24 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-24 15:08 regression: ip r change mss doesn't work in 2.6.38-git14 Alessandro Suardi
2011-03-24 15:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-24 15:52   ` Alessandro Suardi
2011-03-24 16:15     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-24 17:01       ` [PATCH] ipv4: fix fib metrics Eric Dumazet
2011-03-24 18:14         ` Alessandro Suardi
2011-03-24 18:45           ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-24 22:11             ` Alessandro Suardi
2011-03-24 22:18               ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-24 22:27                 ` Alessandro Suardi
2011-03-24 22:32                   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-24 22:36                     ` David Miller
2011-03-24 22:44                       ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2011-03-25  0:12                         ` Alessandro Suardi
2011-03-25  0:22                           ` David Miller
2011-03-25  0:53                           ` Kyle Moffett
2011-03-25  1:04                             ` Alessandro Suardi
2011-03-25  1:25                               ` Alessandro Suardi
2011-05-27  9:27                                 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-28 22:00                                   ` Alessandro Suardi
2011-03-24 18:59         ` David Miller

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