Re: IPv6: Blackhole route support partial ?

From: Kamala R
Date: Fri Nov 15 2013 - 04:36:52 EST


Hi,

That's right. We don't show the error for IPv4 routes as it follows a
different path in kernel while dumping the information as compared
with IPv6. Therefore, "ip route show" does not show an error while "ip
-6 route show" does. So it looks to me that this a kernel problem
which needs to be fixed for consistent behavior. The simplest way to
fix this seems to be to set the error to zero while dumping the
information in the v6 path. I have tested this solution and found that
it works fine. Do you think this is the way to go ?

Regards,
Kamala

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa
<hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 01:50:20PM +0530, Kamala R wrote:
>> I have one quick question before I send the patch across. I noticed
>> that "ip -6 route show" shows an error -22 in the output which
>> signifies -EINVAL associated with blackhole routes. This behaviour is
>> not consistent with that of "ip route show" that shows no such error
>> for a blackhole route. Does this qualify a bug that needs fixing ?
>
> You mean that we don't show the error for IPv4 routes? Is this a kernel or
> iproute problem?
>
> Greetings,
>
> Hannes
>
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