Summary: | net-misc/networkmanager-0.9.4.0-r5 - nm adds one IPv6 route for each connected host | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Matthias Nagel <matthias.nagel> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Robert Piasek (RETIRED) <dagger> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | nirbheek, qiaomuf, tetromino |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | 10.0 | ||
Hardware: | AMD64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
See Also: | https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671767 | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Matthias Nagel
2012-07-27 08:29:04 UTC
Apparently this is a known problem with networkmanager-0.9's ipv6 support, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671767 Basically: * the kernel's ipv6 stack adds new ipv6 routes for each connected host. * those automatically added routes should have a cache tag, so that they get cleaned up when no longer needed. * under some circumstances networkmanager does something to the ipv6 routes that removes the cache tag, so the automatically added ipv6 routes never get cleaned up by the kernel. I've applied patches that fix this bug in the new 0.9.6.0 ebuild. >*networkmanager-0.9.6.0 (13 Sep 2012) > > 13 Sep 2012; Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@gentoo.org> > -files/10-openrc-status-r1, -networkmanager-0.8-r1.ebuild, > -files/networkmanager-0.8-confchanges.patch, > -files/networkmanager-0.8-nscd-clear-cache.patch, > -files/networkmanager-0.8-read-hostname.patch, -networkmanager-0.9.0.ebuild, > -files/networkmanager-0.9.1.95-force-libnl1.1.patch, > -networkmanager-0.9.2.0-r5.ebuild, > -files/networkmanager-0.9.2.0-ifnet-ignore-user-connections.patch, > -files/networkmanager-0.9.2.0-ifnet-openrc-style.patch, > -files/networkmanager-0.9.2.0-ifnet-password-truncated.patch, > -files/networkmanager-0.9.2.0-ifnet-remove-system-prefix.patch, > -files/networkmanager-0.9.2.0-ifnet-unquote-hostname.patch, > -files/networkmanager-0.9.2.0-init-provide-net.patch, > +networkmanager-0.9.6.0.ebuild, > +files/networkmanager-0.9.6.0-cached-ipv6-routes-1.patch, > +files/networkmanager-0.9.6.0-cached-ipv6-routes-2.patch, > +files/networkmanager-0.9.6.0-daemon-signals.patch, > -files/NetworkManagerDispatcher, -files/nm-system-settings.conf, > metadata.xml: > Version bump with various fixes. No longer saves thousands of temporary ipv6 > routes (bug #428274, thanks to Matthias Nagel). No longer installs dispatcher > and init scripts when USE=systemd to avoid annoying systemd users (bug > #434692, thanks to Arne Stäcker). Drop old. |