retitle 149897 documentation: no need to patch kernel for equalize. tag 149897 = severity wishlist thanks
Hello Andras! Thank you very much for getting back to me on this! On lör, 2007-12-29 at 12:41 +0100, Andras Korn wrote: > On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 02:08:16AM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > > > I tried to reproduce the problem but when I tried to add a route with > > "equalize" I got "Invalid argument". > > The ip manpage told me "equalize only works if the kernel is patched." > > What kernel version is that? I can add this route to a vanilla kernel (OK, > it has the vserver patch but that doesn't really touch multipath routing). I guess I must have done something else wrong. I tested this on Debian Unstable with the regular packaged linux 2.6.22-3-amd64, but if I follow the example you gave below it works for me too. [...] > If I then ifconfig dummy0 up again, the dead half of the route comes back. > So I'd say this works as expected now. [...] Very good to hear this has resolved itself. The only thing that remains is the false statement in the documentation about having to patch the kernel. Lets treat this report as a bug against the documentation from now on. I'll try to dig some and see if I can find it which kernel version the support first appeared. -- Regards, Andreas Henriksson