Hi Hannes, >> "We didn't find an RFC that tells us to build a working implementation, so >> we decided not to..." > > Of coure I did notice the misbehaviour if we compile without > CONFIG_IPV6_ROUTER_PREF and am working on a solution. I hoped to send > out a second patch soon after the first one, but it became more subtle > (and meanwhile lack time until the end of the weekend :( ).
Thanks, good to hear that! I got the impression that it wouldn't be fixed. > This is a more complex issue to fix as I did not want to break the > round-robin selection of routes with unkown nud states in the default > router list. Also I am looking to resolve some usability issues: on > executing ``ip route get'' we actually do trigger active nud validation > on the nexthops. This could be a PITA because we do actually change the > results by that (a second ``ip route get'' could yield different results). Yeah, 'get' commands with side effects can really confuse people. They would confuse me :) >>> So I assume that the bug would still be there. >> >> Sigh... > > I'll keep you notified as soon as I have a working solution. Thank you! Sorry for my remark earlier, I misjudged the situation. Cheers, Sander
