netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3 v3] net: ipv4 sysctl option to ignore routes when nexthop link is down

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Date:	Wed, 10 Jun 2015 23:36:21 -0400
From:	Andy Gospodarek <gospo@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:	Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
Cc:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <hideaki.yoshifuji@...aclelinux.com>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, ddutt@...ulusnetworks.com,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	"stephen@...workplumber.org" <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3 v3] net: ipv4 sysctl option to ignore routes
 when nexthop link is down

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 08:00:14PM -0700, Scott Feldman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 7:57 PM, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
> <hideaki.yoshifuji@...aclelinux.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> >> This feature is only enabled with the new per-interface or ipv4 global
> >> sysctls called 'ignore_routes_with_linkdown'.
> >>
> >> net.ipv4.conf.all.ignore_routes_with_linkdown = 0
> >> net.ipv4.conf.default.ignore_routes_with_linkdown = 0
> >> net.ipv4.conf.lo.ignore_routes_with_linkdown = 0
> > :
> >> Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@...ulusnetworks.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Dinesh Dutt <ddutt@...ulusnetworks.com>
> >> ---
> > :
> >> diff --git a/kernel/sysctl_binary.c b/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
> >> index 7e7746a..c9d0a0e 100644
> >> --- a/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
> >> +++ b/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
> >> @@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ static const struct bin_table bin_net_ipv4_conf_vars_table[] = {
> >>       { CTL_INT,      NET_IPV4_CONF_NOPOLICY,                 "disable_policy" },
> >>       { CTL_INT,      NET_IPV4_CONF_FORCE_IGMP_VERSION,       "force_igmp_version" },
> >>       { CTL_INT,      NET_IPV4_CONF_PROMOTE_SECONDARIES,      "promote_secondaries" },
> >> +     { CTL_INT,      NET_IPV4_CONF_IGNORE_ROUTES_WITH_LINKDOWN,      "ignore_routes_with_linkdown" },
> >>       {}
> >>  };
> >>
> >
> > Please do not add new binary sysctl knob. Thank you.
> 
> Reason?

I'll echo Scott's request here.  I realize than an abundance of them is
bad, but (to me) this one seems useful.  Unless of course we want to
make this proposed behavior the default.  :-)

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