(usagi-users 03161) Re: cannot always delete IPv6 route entry in Fedora core 2 and Core 3

[Peter Bieringer <pb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On Wednesday, December 08, 2004 09:41:16 PM -0800 Pavlin Radoslavov
<pavlin@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Has anybody else ran into the same problem?
> 
> I was able to replicate the problem and I am curious if somebody has
> a solution for it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Pavlin
> 
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> I'm a Ph. D student at Carleton University, Canada. I've developing 
>> routing protocols
>> on Linux.

>> It will be successfully if I use command twice in very short time (ine 1 
>> or 2 seconds)
>> ip -6 route del fec0::206:25ff:fea9:b1fd/128 dev eth1
>> 
>> Here eth1 is a wireless interface
>> 
>> 
>> I tested on two Dell tops with Fedora core 2 and 3 with the same 
>> problem, but on redhat 9.0,
>> there is no such problem at all (even with the routing protocol which I 
>> work on).
>> 
>> BTW, I've sent the same question to  netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx  but don't 
>> receive reply.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks in advance!
>> 
>> Liang Qin

Any reason why want to remove a /128 route which is usually created
automagically by the kernel?

Also if you take a look at "ip -6 route" you would not find this /128 route
at all.

        Peter
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