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From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
To: Emmanuel Thierry <ml@sekil.fr>
Cc: Sharat Masetty <sharat04@gmail.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPV6 routing problem
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:59:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140124135932.GR7269@order.stressinduktion.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CD36411A-7584-48B1-A406-E1584B3D32DD@sekil.fr>

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:36:54AM +0100, Emmanuel Thierry wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Le 23 janv. 2014 à 08:15, Sharat Masetty a écrit :
> 
> > Unfortunately toggling this config setting CONFIG_IPV6_ROUTER_PREF did
> > not help, I see the same problem in both cases.
> > The kernel version I am using is 3.10.0.
> > 
> > Thanks for confirming that this is a non issue on 3.13 kernel version.
> > Would you happen to know which patch would have potentially fixed this
> > issue?
> 
> Your problem looks like the following one : 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=137280268407054&w=2
> 
> Which has been fixed in 3.10.4, and 3.11+

Yes, that could very well be the case. We resolve the gateway while
inserting the route (if not on-link), and it may not be available
because of missing probes or no traffic went to it, yet. Thanks for
looking after this, Emmanuel.

I really recommend using the stable kernels btw. instead of the vanialla
point zero releases.

Thanks,

  Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-24 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-22  1:41 IPV6 routing problem Sharat Masetty
2014-01-22  7:07 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-22  7:11   ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-23  7:15     ` Sharat Masetty
2014-01-24  9:36       ` Emmanuel Thierry
2014-01-24 13:59         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa [this message]
2014-01-24 18:50           ` Sharat Masetty
2014-01-24 20:05             ` Cong Wang
2014-01-26 13:57               ` Rami Rosen

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