[Babel-users] interfaces state

[Dave Taht]

Christof Schulze <christof.schulze at gmx.net> writes:

> Hello,
>
> At the moment I am struggling babeld's notion of active interfaces
> Interfaces are not  recognized as up, while they actually are.
> Interestingly on the interfaces itself I cannot spot a difference of flags or state.
> I am creating the interface, setting it up and then adding it to babeld using the control socket.
>
> This is on the latest master including my pref-src patches (which should not touch this behavior).
>
> At this point, I just wanted to let you folks know, I do not have a solution yet.

I'm not really huge on the fe80::1 idea, it's saner to generate a unique
address. Don't think that's your problem, but...

>
>
>
> Root at gw02:~# echo dump |nc ::1 33123 |grep interf
> Add interface ens14 up true ipv6 fe80::a800:ff:fe77:94ac
> Add interface babel-vpn-1374 up false
> Add interface babel-wg-1 up true ipv6 fe80::1
> Add interface babel-wg-5 up false
> Add interface babel-wg-2 up false
> Add interface babel-wg-3 up false
> Add interface babel-wg-6 up false
> Add interface babel-wg-4 up false
>
> Root at gw02:~# ip a s dev babel-wg-1
> 237: babel-wg-1: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1374 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
>    link/none  inet6 fe80::1/64 scope link     valid_lft forever
> preferred_lft forever
> root at gw02:~# ip a s dev babel-wg-4
> 1058: babel-wg-4: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1374 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
>    link/none  inet6 fe80::1/64 scope link     valid_lft forever
> preferred_lft forever
>
>
>
>
>
> Babel-wg-4: flags=4305<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,MULTICAST>  mtu 1374
>        inet6 fe80::1  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
>        unspec 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  txqueuelen 1000  (UNSPEC)
>        RX packets 95  bytes 9484 (9.2 KiB)
>        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
>        TX packets 33  bytes 1832 (1.7 KiB)
>        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
>
> babel-wg-5: flags=4305<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,MULTICAST>  mtu 1374
>        inet6 fe80::1  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
>        unspec 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  txqueuelen 1000  (UNSPEC)
>        RX packets 32548  bytes 3136768 (2.9 MiB)
>        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
>        TX packets 10572  bytes 432228 (422.0 KiB)
>        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
>
> babel-wg-6: flags=4305<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,MULTICAST>  mtu 1374
>        inet6 fe80::1  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
>        unspec 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  txqueuelen 1000  (UNSPEC)
>        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
>        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
>        TX packets 6  bytes 888 (888.0 B)
>        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
>
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Christof