From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC] ipv6: protocol for address routes
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:54:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080819085441.7b0184d1@speedy> (raw)
This fixes a problem spotted with zebra, but not sure if it is necessary a kernel problem.
With IPV6 when an address is added to an interface, Zebra creates a duplicate RIB
entry, one as a connected route, and other as a kernel route.
When an address is added to an interface the RTN_NEWADDR message causes Zebra
to create a connected route. In IPV4 when an address is added to an interface a RTN_NEWROUTE
message is set to user space with the protocol RTPROT_KERNEL. Zebra ignores these messages,
because it already has the connected route.
The problem is that route created in IPV6 has route protocol == RTPROT_BOOT.
Was this a design decision or a bug? This fixes it. Same patch applies to both
net-2.6 and stable.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c 2008-08-18 21:58:51.000000000 -0700
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c 2008-08-18 22:00:26.000000000 -0700
@@ -1688,6 +1688,7 @@ addrconf_prefix_route(struct in6_addr *p
.fc_dst_len = plen,
.fc_flags = RTF_UP | flags,
.fc_nlinfo.nl_net = dev_net(dev),
+ .fc_protocol = RTPROT_KERNEL,
};
ipv6_addr_copy(&cfg.fc_dst, pfx);
next reply other threads:[~2008-08-19 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-19 15:54 Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2008-08-22 12:19 ` [RFC] ipv6: protocol for address routes David Miller
2008-08-23 12:17 ` David Miller
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