netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6: Do not consider link state for nexthop validation

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Message-Id: <20161027.163411.2198499719090919446.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:34:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dsa@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6: Do not consider link state for nexthop
 validation

From: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 12:27:23 -0700

> Similar to IPv4, do not consider link state when validating next hops.
> 
> Currently, if the link is down default routes can fail to insert:
>  $ ip -6 ro add vrf blue default via 2100:2::64 dev eth2
>  RTNETLINK answers: No route to host
> 
> With this patch the command succeeds.
> 
> Fixes: 8c14586fc320 ("net: ipv6: Use passed in table for nexthop lookups")
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.