# Re: \[PATCH\] ip route: timeout for routes has to be set in seconds

- From: Stephen Hemminger \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-07-01 00:31:07 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2016/07/11022381
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2016/07/11022381/t.md

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On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 23:27:14 +0000
Andrey Vagin [ref] wrote:

> From: Andrew Vagin <redacted>
> 
> Currently a timeout is multiplied by HZ in user-space and
> then it multiplied by HZ in kernel-space.
> 
> $ ./ip/ip r add 2002::0/64 dev veth1 expires 10
> $ ./ip/ip -6 r
> 2002::/64 dev veth1  metric 1024 linkdown  expires 996sec pref medium
> 
> Cc: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
> Cc: Hangbin Liu <redacted>
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <redacted>
> Fixes: 68eede250500 ("route: allow routes to be configured with expire values")
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <redacted>

Applied.
```