Thanks, Marc for the response. However, the route was created because of the prefix that was received in the RA. Hence it should be marked as "ra" too. I feel that makes more sense. We will be able to correctly identify all the routes that were added due to a received RA.
Dheeraj On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 1:32 AM Marc Haber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 11:11:05AM -0400, Dheeraj Kandula wrote: > > When I enabled Router Advertisement on the interface on which I > want > > to receive RA, the received prefix was added to the routing table. The > > default route was added with the tag "ra" but not the prefix. > > I can only guess, but my guess is that it doesn't marked that way > because it strictly speaking didnt come from an RA but was generated > because an IP address was configured on the Interface. That is most > probably the same mechanism that is used when an IP address is manually > configured on the interface. > > > When I flush the ra learned routes using the following command, only the > > default route gets removed. Why doesn't the prefix which is *bolded* > above > > get deleted too? > > Because the route was not learned via RA. I find that correct behavior. > > Greetings > Marc > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header > Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 > Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421 > >
