Bug 181928

Summary:	sys-apps/iproute2-2.6.20.20070313: ip route table argument without effect
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Martin von Gagern <Martin.vGagern>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2007.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Martin von Gagern 2007-06-13 17:06:44 UTC

I'm trying to follow the setup described in http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html but I can't add a route to a specific table, it will always be added to the table "main". Feels like a bug in iproute2 to me.

Steps to reproduce:
 ip route add 123.45.67.89 dev ppp0 table 100
 ip route show table 100
 ip route show table main
Expected result:
 route listed in table 100 but not listed in table main
Actual result:
 route listed in table main, table 100 still empty

Comment 1 Martin von Gagern 2007-06-20 18:22:49 UTC

I just found out that I had to set CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER and CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES for my kernel, and after this it works.

Still it feels like an error to silently ignore an unsupported argument; I talked to some debian user and he recalled getting some error message under these circumstances.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2007-08-25 16:40:47 UTC

please send an e-mail to netdev@vger.kernel.org as they would be the people who could give you real information

Comment 3 Martin von Gagern 2007-08-25 17:44:50 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> please send an e-mail to netdev@vger.kernel.org

Done: http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg46235.html
resp. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/70387