netdev - Re: [PATCH] mpls: Do not decrement alive counter for unregister events

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Date:   Mon, 13 Mar 2017 16:38:55 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:     Robert Shearman <rshearma@...cade.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     roopa@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mpls: Do not decrement alive counter for unregister
 events

On 3/13/17 3:11 PM, David Ahern wrote:
> On 3/13/17 5:10 AM, Robert Shearman wrote:
>> Doesn't this leave the problem that if the device's link goes down and
>> then the device gets deleted the alive count will be decremented twice
>> for the same path?
> yes. and it exposes another bug in multipath selection.
> 

nevermind. I did not set the sysctl to keep ipv6 addresses; link down on
the veth device took out the address and route