----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan Williams" <[email protected]> > To: "Pavel Simerda" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Anders Blomdell" <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 12:05:28 AM > Subject: Re: NetworkManager with multiple RA (radvd failover) > > On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 18:00 -0500, Pavel Simerda wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Dan Williams" <[email protected]> > > > To: "Anders Blomdell" <[email protected]> > > > Cc: [email protected] > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 11:58:34 PM > > > Subject: Re: NetworkManager with multiple RA (radvd failover) > > > > > > On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 13:26 +0100, Anders Blomdell wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I'm trying to implement RA failover at my site, but NetworkManager > > > > grabs > > > > the > > > > first RA it sees to set a (static) default route with metric 1, and > > > > then it > > > > sits there even when the lifetime of this route has expired (and no > > > > more > > > > RA's > > > > from that host). Is this a bug or some feature tham I'm overlooking. > > > > > > Which version of NetworkManager do you have? I know there were some > > > lifetime issues with previous versions of NM, but it would certainly be > > > a bug if NetworkManager continued to leave a default route up when the > > > router's lifetime had expired. > > > > The metric one suggest it's a pre-libndp version. At that time the route > > management was rather difficult. > > Good point and you're probably correct. This should probably still get > fixed in 0.9.8.x if it's not horribly hard.
I'm afraid it would be a lost effort, unless anyone has a good motivation. For me this was one of the motivating issues to work on userspace router discovery. Pavel > Dan > > > Pavel > > > > > Dan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > networkmanager-list mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
