From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] IPV4: remove addresses and routes when carrier is lost
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:03:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48456B62.8050909@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080603085707.51fdabbb@speedy>
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:05:24 -0400
> lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 04:52:49PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>> This patch adds a new configuration sysctl that causes link loss to clear
>>> FIB state in the same way as admin down. This allows for routing daemons
>>> like Quagga which have option to remove routes when carrier is lost.
>>>
>>> This has been a long standing problem with Quagga on Linux with complaints
>>> on the developers list going back to 2004. Fixing it properly, so the routing
>>> daemon manages the RIB, and the kernel manages the FIB, requires changes to
>>> both parts.
>> Does this cover only the local route for the interface, or all routes
>> assigned staticly to the interface too?
>
> The patch makes carrier down == interface down. So the same
> behaviour as doing 'ip link set dev eth3 down'
Can't the routing daemon simply ignore routes with a
device that has no carrier?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-03 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-02 23:52 [PATCH 1/2] IPV4: remove addresses and routes when carrier is lost Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-02 23:53 ` [PATCH 1/2] IPV6: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-03 16:17 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-06-03 17:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-03 17:25 ` David Miller
2008-06-03 17:28 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-03 17:31 ` David Miller
2008-06-03 17:28 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-06-03 17:30 ` David Miller
2008-06-03 17:46 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-03 17:53 ` David Miller
2008-06-03 18:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-03 19:06 ` David Miller
2008-06-03 21:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-03 15:05 ` [PATCH 1/2] IPV4: " Lennart Sorensen
2008-06-03 15:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-03 16:03 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-06-03 16:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-03 16:44 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-03 21:45 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-06-03 22:32 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-04 13:53 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-06-03 21:44 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-06-06 14:56 ` Lennart Sorensen
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