From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa Subject: Re: IPV6 routing problem Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:59:32 +0100 Message-ID: <20140124135932.GR7269@order.stressinduktion.org> References: <20140122070759.GB28225@order.stressinduktion.org> <20140122071101.GC28225@order.stressinduktion.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Sharat Masetty , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Emmanuel Thierry Return-path: Received: from order.stressinduktion.org ([87.106.68.36]:34645 "EHLO order.stressinduktion.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752359AbaAXN7e (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:59:34 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:36:54AM +0100, Emmanuel Thierry wrote: > Hello, >=20 > Le 23 janv. 2014 =C3=A0 08:15, Sharat Masetty a =C3=A9crit : >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > Thanks for confirming that this is a non issue on 3.13 kernel versi= on. > > Would you happen to know which patch would have potentially fixed t= his > > issue? >=20 > Your problem looks like the following one :=20 > http://marc.info/?l=3Dlinux-netdev&m=3D137280268407054&w=3D2 >=20 > 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 vaniall= a point zero releases. Thanks, Hannes