[gentoo-dev] iproute2 bug resolved in new version

[gentoo-dev] iproute2 bug resolved in new version

[Fred Bulthuis]

Hi,

I used the ip utility to do some routing on my 4 nic router/firewall. I was 
using version ip utility, iproute2-ss010824, which is the same as Gentoo 
uses. I was using it on a Slackware 8 box  but I had some trouble with 
multipath routing using nexthop. After some time (5-15 minutes or so) the 
relevant output of ip route show was :

default
        nexthop via 213.51.x.1  dev eth3 weight 1
        nexthop via 212.204.x.1  dev eth1 weight 1
        nexthop via 212.204.x.1  dev eth2 weight 1 dead

The dead via wasn't dead at all, it's a bug somewhere and it was resolved in 
a later release of iproute2. I  use  ip utility, iproute2-ss020116 and didn't 
see this dead error any more.  Maybe Gentoo should update the iproute2 
version as well, but I don't know if the Gentoo version was patched to 
resolve this problem.

Cheers,

Fred Bulthuis.
 

Re: [gentoo-dev] iproute2 bug resolved in new version

[Daniel Robbins]

On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 18:26, Fred Bulthuis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I used the ip utility to do some routing on my 4 nic router/firewall. I was 
> using version ip utility, iproute2-ss010824, which is the same as Gentoo 
> uses. I was using it on a Slackware 8 box  but I had some trouble with 
> multipath routing using nexthop. After some time (5-15 minutes or so) the 
> relevant output of ip route show was :
> 
> default
>         nexthop via 213.51.x.1  dev eth3 weight 1
>         nexthop via 212.204.x.1  dev eth1 weight 1
>         nexthop via 212.204.x.1  dev eth2 weight 1 dead
> 
> The dead via wasn't dead at all, it's a bug somewhere and it was resolved in 
> a later release of iproute2. I  use  ip utility, iproute2-ss020116 and didn't 
> see this dead error any more.  Maybe Gentoo should update the iproute2 
> version as well, but I don't know if the Gentoo version was patched to 
> resolve this problem.

Please submit this as a bug report to http://bugs.gentoo.org so we get
it fixed.  Send any issues like this to bugs.gentoo.org.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins                                  <drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President                       http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.