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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.20.3-rc1 / iproute2 hoplimit 2^32-1 vs 2^8-1
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:27:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45FEABE1.9050003@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45FEAA3E.20601@trash.net>

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Pekka Savola wrote:
> 
>>On kernel based on 2.6.20.3-rc1 (FC6), 'ip -6 r l' shows:
>>
>>default via fe80::212:f0ff:fe5f:c4ec dev eth1  proto kernel  metric
>>1024  expires 7191sec mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 4294967295
>>
>>(this is the same with iproute2-ss061214 and iproute2-ss070313.)
>>
>>So, it seems that the data length for hoplimit is not quite right, or
>>it's reported as 2^32-1 instead of 2^8-1...
> 
> 
> 
> Does this fix it?


Mhh actually this looks intentional:

icmpv6_send and some other output functions do:
	int hlimit;
...
        if (hlimit < 0)
                hlimit = dst_metric(dst, RTAX_HOPLIMIT);
        if (hlimit < 0)
                hlimit = ipv6_get_hoplimit(dst->dev);


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-19 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-19 15:11 2.6.20.3-rc1 / iproute2 hoplimit 2^32-1 vs 2^8-1 Pekka Savola
2007-03-19 15:20 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-03-19 15:27   ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2007-03-19 19:18     ` David Miller
2007-03-20  8:27       ` Pekka Savola
2007-03-20  8:39         ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明

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