[gentoo-dev] iproute2 bug resolved in new version

[Fred Bulthuis]

Hi,

I used the ip utility to do some routing on my 4 nic router/firewall. I was 
using version ip utility, iproute2-ss010824, which is the same as Gentoo 
uses. I was using it on a Slackware 8 box  but I had some trouble with 
multipath routing using nexthop. After some time (5-15 minutes or so) the 
relevant output of ip route show was :

default
        nexthop via 213.51.x.1  dev eth3 weight 1
        nexthop via 212.204.x.1  dev eth1 weight 1
        nexthop via 212.204.x.1  dev eth2 weight 1 dead

The dead via wasn't dead at all, it's a bug somewhere and it was resolved in 
a later release of iproute2. I  use  ip utility, iproute2-ss020116 and didn't 
see this dead error any more.  Maybe Gentoo should update the iproute2 
version as well, but I don't know if the Gentoo version was patched to 
resolve this problem.

Cheers,

Fred Bulthuis.