[Babel-users] preferred source address vs babel

[StarBrilliant]

No, I haven't.
On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 06:23 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:

> StarBrilliant <coder at poorlab.com> writes:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have been looking into this problem for months.
> >
> > I found that Linux kernel have difficulty determining source address
> > for an icmp-ttl-exceeded packet if SADR is used.
> >
> > Sometimes it will return the primary address as if SADR route does not
> > exist; sometimes it will just seallow the reply packet, showing as a
> > "???" in the traceroute.
> >
> > In some rare random situation a machine with two routes like "default
> > from 2001.../48" would report "no route to host" when you want to
> > connect from it to some random (not all) hosts in the Internet,
> > although the machine routes packets from others correctly.
> >
> > I found that icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr does not work for IPv6,
> > and have been trying to port that option to IPv6. I am not sure if it
> > can fix the traceroute problem. But I am currently suspending this
> > work, hopefully someone else is interested in it.
> >
> > I agree that we need such an option. That's simply because Linux
> > kernel is buggy.
>
> Yeah, this seems buggy. Have you reported the issue on netdev? :)
>
> -Toke
>
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