Re: NetworkManager with multiple RA (radvd failover)

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 18:00 -0500, Pavel Simerda wrote:
> ----- 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.

Good point and you're probably correct.  This should probably still get
fixed in 0.9.8.x if it's not horribly hard.

Dan

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