netdev - Re: source route ignored in favor of local interface

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Message-ID: <4D6E928D.6030806@candelatech.com>
Date:	Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:55:09 -0800
From:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
To:	Joe Buehler <aspam@....net>
CC:	Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@...band.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: source route ignored in favor of local interface

On 03/01/2011 11:31 AM, Joe Buehler wrote:
>> If you really want to modify things, have you looked at your ip rules?
>> "ip ru" will dump them.  Typically it looks something like
>>
>> 0:      from all lookup local
>> 32766:  from all lookup main
>> 32767:  from all lookup default
>>
>> The last item in each row is the name of the routing table.  As you can
>> see, the first rule is for local interfaces, and a later rule deals with
>> the main and default routing tables.
>>
>> You could move the local lookup to rule 1 and add in a new rule 0
>> specifically dealing with your situation.
>
> We have tried some variations on modifications to ip rules, but the
> kernel appears to treat rule 0 specially -- it cannot be deleted, for
> example.  This results in the enforcing of local interfaces before
> source routes -- surely something that should be a policy decision, not
> hard-coded.
>
> Let me rephrase and ask: Does anyone know how to replace the priority 0
> rule?

You can do this on more modern kernels (2.6.36 and later definately works..not sure
about earlier).

		ip rule add pref 512 lookup local
		ip rule del pref 0 lookup local

Thanks,
Ben

>
> Joe Buehler
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Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
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