[Xorp-users] IPv6 intermittent connectivity

Pavlin Radoslavov pavlin at icir.org
Wed Nov 7 12:31:49 PST 2007


> There was an IPv6-related bug in the FEA which added bogus
> forwarding entries to the kernel. I just committed fix to the XORP
> CVS:
> 
> Revision  Changes                               Path
> 1.15      +4 -21;  commitid: 4e7a473213d87ea6;  xorp/fea/data_plane/fibconfig/fibconfig_entry_set_routing_socket.cc
> 
> Interestingly, the kernel didn't catch the bogus entries, and
> the FreeBSD-6.2 netstat(1) command didn't handle the error when
> decoding those entries. The side effect of this was the weird
> looking 2001:ec1:4001:10af::/64/64 entry.

Forgot to ask: were you using 64-bit machine?
I believe the above bug will show only on 64-bit system running
*BSD, so I just want to make sure it has been cornered properly.

Thanks,
Pavlin



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