From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iproute2: adding /128 address to sit interface borks
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:27:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090710082731.0b06c0eb@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0907101402430.21999@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:05:01 +0200 (CEST)
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> it's impossible to do this, and the error message does not say why
> that is so. No word in dmesg either.
>
>
> # ip a a fc00::49/128 peer fc00::7 dev sit7
> RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
You will need to walk through the path in the kernel.
In worst case, it means adding kernel printk's.
Then if you want to be nice, make a patch to ipaddr.c in iproute
utilities so command line can find the error before passing to
kernel and give a nice error :-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-10 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-10 12:05 iproute2: adding /128 address to sit interface borks Jan Engelhardt
2009-07-10 15:27 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2010-02-27 15:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-02-27 16:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
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