Re: [RFC net-next] ipv6: Use destination address determined by IPVS

[Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>]

	Hello,

On Wed, 16 Oct 2013, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:

> To have ip6_dst_check working, there must to be a valid link from
> the rt6_info to the fib6_node. Otherwise we cannot check the serial
> number. As I currently see we also need a link from the fib6_node down
> to the dst entry for resource management. Thus we would have to insert
> the special dst-entry with RTF_GATEWAY and non-null rt6i_gateway back
> into the fib and have it globally visible. This could have unforseen
> side effects. We still cache all dst entries in the fib. One think I
> foresee as a possible problem is the automatic aggregation of ECMP routes,
> too.

	I'm still not sure what is needed. Looking at
ip6_pol_route(), I see that everything should just work: for
routes without RTF_GATEWAY flag we return cloned route
from rt6_alloc_cow() with valid rt6i_gateway. I still
didn't tested the problem myself, so I'll stop with the
comments before that.

> We should provide something similar to what IPv4 does with the
> KNOWN_NH flag. I guess my idea with exchanging rt6i_dst as nexthop would
> solve this without too much hassle but this would have to be checked by
> implementing it.
> 
> I don't think that storing a changed nexthop in the ipv6 cb is that nice and
> maintainable.

	Agreed. I'm not going to test that change. I'll test
latest net-next without any changes to see where exactly is
the failure because the IPv6 routing seems capable for what
we need. I have problems with my setup, so I'll need some
days. As Simon is also testing the problem, he can find the
reason before me.

Regards

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Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>