Re: IPv6: Blackhole route support partial ?

[Kamala R]

Hi,

I have sent across the patch on a separate thread. The subject of the mail is :

[PATCH 1/1] IPv6: Fixed support for blackhole and prohibit routes

Could you review ?

Thanks,
Kamala




On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa
<hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 03:06:28PM +0530, Kamala R wrote:
>> 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 ?
>
> If I understand you correctly you propose to drop the output of the error
> attribute for IPv6 routes too? It is not that important that those two
> outputs are identical and if you make a change, please introduce the
> error propagation for IPv4 so one can see the socket errors for those
> routes, too. I wouldn't drop those for IPv6 just for consistency reasons.
>
> Greetings,
>
>   Hannes
>
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