Re: [PATCH] ipv4: fix fib metrics
From: Alessandro Suardi <hidden>
Date: 2011-03-25 00:12:13
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On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Eric Dumazet [off-list ref] wrote:
Le jeudi 24 mars 2011 à 15:36 -0700, David Miller a écrit :quoted
From: Eric Dumazet <redacted> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:32:26 +0100quoted
Then it doesnt work anymore because it parses an ipip field from ip route get ... $ ip ro get 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0 src 192.168.1.21 cache ipid 0x784c mtu 1500 advmss 1460 hoplimit 64 Maybe you upgraded iproute2I'm leaning towards app bug too. These default metrics wouldn't get printed before, but now because of how metrics are handled, they will. Userland needs to cope properly with this.BTW, ipip is not always printed (even on old kernels) : One needs to actually need ipip generation . edumazet@edumazet-laptop:~$ ping 4.4.4.4 PING 4.4.4.4 (4.4.4.4) 56(84) bytes of data. ^C edumazet@edumazet-laptop:~$ ip ro get 4.4.4.4 4.4.4.4 dev ppp0 src 10.150.51.210 cache mtu 1500 advmss 1460 hoplimit 64 edumazet@edumazet-laptop:~$ ping -s 2000 4.4.4.4 PING 4.4.4.4 (4.4.4.4) 2000(2028) bytes of data. ^C edumazet@edumazet-laptop:~$ ip ro get 4.4.4.4 4.4.4.4 dev ppp0 src 10.150.51.210 cache ipid 0xf99a mtu 1500 advmss 1460 hoplimit 64 This on a 2.6.35 kernel I suspect Alessandro tool had a bug anyway.
I still contend this is a kernel regression :) vpnc is a custom build from trunk as of June 2010, with openssl support to talk to my corporate VPN concentrator: [root@duff oldconfigs]# vpnc --version vpnc version 0.5.3-449M Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Geoffrey Keating, Maurice Massar, others vpnc comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute copies of vpnc under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING. Built with openssl certificate support. Be aware of the license implications. Supported DH-Groups: nopfs dh1 dh2 dh5 Supported Hash-Methods: md5 sha1 Supported Encryptions: null des 3des aes128 aes192 aes256 Supported Auth-Methods: psk psk+xauth hybrid(rsa) My iproute package, on this up-to-date Fedora 14 x86_64, has last been updated on 20 Nov 2010, and back then I was running 2.6.37-rc2-git4 (I keep around my historical .config files, so I know for sure). [root@duff ~]# ip -V ip utility, iproute2-ss100804 [root@duff ~]# rpm -qf /sbin/ip iproute-2.6.35-6.fc14.x86_64 The behavior of this version of 'ip' as invoked by this version of 'vpnc' is something that has worked for the last 4 months, and isn't working right now. Furthermore, previous versions of 'ip' in Fedora 14 were also working with the same 'vpnc', which means it's actually 9 months minimum of working behavior. If some change in the kernel broke my userspace, this usually qualifies as a regression. That said, if you can point me to a working version of iproute with the current kernel, I have no problem in upgrading it :) Thanks, --alessandro "There's always a siren singing you to shipwreck" (Radiohead, "There There")