netdev - Re: [RFC] ipv6: don't flush routes when setting loopback down

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Message-ID: <m1y67ptii7.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
Date:	Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:17:36 -0800
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, brian.haley@...com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, maheshkelkar@...il.com, lorenzo@...gle.com,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] ipv6: don't flush routes when setting loopback down

Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> writes:

> When loopback device is being brought down, then keep the route table
> entries because they are special. The entries in the local table for
> linklocal routes and ::1 address should not be purged.
>
> This is a sub optimal solution to the problem and should be replaced
> by a better fix in future.

I will test this and let you know how it goes from my side.

I would really like to get a fix for this in before -rc7,
as this bug makes the kernel unusable for me.

Eric
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