Re: NetworkManager with multiple RA (radvd failover)

[Pavel Simerda <psimerda redhat com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Williams" <dcbw redhat com>
> To: "Anders Blomdell" <anders blomdell control lth se>
> Cc: networkmanager-list gnome org
> 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.

Pavel

> Dan
>
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