Re: NetworkManager with multiple RA (radvd failover)

[Anders Blomdell <anders blomdell control lth se>]

On 2013-12-18 00:00, 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.
NetworkManager-0.9.8.8-2.fc19.x86_64

Time to switch to fc20 now, will be back when this is done.

/Anders



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