I also opened earlier a ticket in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197899 And Stephen Hemminger had couple of comments there which I want to argue:
> $ ip route list default > Means list all routes in any address family (ie same as any) > but > > $ ip route list 0/0 > Means list all routes for IPv4 default route. This is not correct, because first command do not show routes in any address family. Now it do so only when table 0 is specified, otherwise only IPv4 routes are showed. Here is the code from iproute.c: if (do_ipv6 == AF_UNSPEC && filter.tb) do_ipv6 = AF_INET; > It probably is worth a man page warning, but changing semantics > that have existed for many years is more likely to break some existing user. Yes, backward compatibility is a reason. But as I remember, that sematics already have changed earlier. Probably it was showing IPv4 and IPv6 routes together without family specified - I do not remember exactly. And I have doubts that such feature could be lied on reliably. I as a end user would prefer to make the behaviour more consistent and without such excetptions. But of course there may be other opinions. On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Alexander Zubkov <zubkov...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have found odd behaviour when using "ip route list" (and other bound > commands) with prefix "default". > > When family not specified, its value is completely ignored and "ip > route list default" shows all inet4 prefixes. Same do "ip route list > exact default" and "ip route list match default". Examples are at the > end of the message. > > When family is specified, the behaviour changes and default works as > expected (=0.0.0.0/0 for inet4 and =::/0 for inet6). The above > commands all shows only default prefix in the output and only "root > default" shows all prefixes. > > I tried to dig into the code and found that when default is using with > unspecified family - the resulting structures filter.[mr]dst will > actually become all-zeroes as in the case when nothing is specified. > > I propose to change this in such a way (see attached patch). When > default prefix is parsed, the flag PREFIXLEN_SPECIFIED is attached to > it too, like for prefixes with "/<masklen>". It seems logical to me, > because "/0" is really implied by "default" and even directly set up > in the code: > > dst->bitlen = 0; > > Then during filtering there is additional logic for unspecified family > and specified prefix. > > With this patch ip route list commands shown above are working as > expected. And it also works with unspecified table when routes are > printed from different families. > > Examples after applying the patch: > > # ./ip route list > default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 > 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.1 > 192.168.1.0/24 via 192.168.0.3 dev eth0 > # ./ip -6 route list > fe80::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium > fe80:1::/64 via fe80::3 dev eth0 metric 1024 pref medium > default via fe80::2 dev eth0 metric 1024 pref medium > # ./ip route list default > default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 > # ./ip route list exact default > default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 > # ./ip route list match default > default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 > # ./ip route list root default > default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 > 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.1 > 192.168.1.0/24 via 192.168.0.3 dev eth0 > # ./ip route list default table all > default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 > unreachable default dev lo proto kernel metric 4294967295 error -101 pref > medium > default via fe80::2 dev eth0 metric 1024 pref medium > unreachable default dev lo proto kernel metric 4294967295 error -101 pref > medium > unreachable default dev lo proto kernel metric 4294967295 error -101 pref > medium > # ./ip route list root default table all > default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 > 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.1 > ... > ff00::/8 dev eth0 table local metric 256 pref medium > unreachable default dev lo proto kernel metric 4294967295 error -101 pref > medium > > And before patch: > > # ip route list default > default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 > 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.1 > 192.168.1.0/24 via 192.168.0.3 dev eth0 > # ip route list match default > default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 > 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.1 > 192.168.1.0/24 via 192.168.0.3 dev eth0 > # ip route list exact default > default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 > 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.1 > 192.168.1.0/24 via 192.168.0.3 dev eth0 > # ip -4 route list exact default > default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 > # ip -6 route list exact default > default via fe80::2 dev eth0 metric 1024 > # ip route list exact default table all > default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 > 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.1 > ... > local fe80::3c09:19ff:feee:9866 dev lo table local proto none metric 0 > ff00::/8 dev eth0 table local metric 256 > unreachable default dev lo table unspec proto kernel metric > 4294967295 error -101