netdev - Re: Strange routing with VRF and 5.2.7+

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Date:   Sun, 22 Sep 2019 13:23:13 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Strange routing with VRF and 5.2.7+

On 9/20/19 9:57 AM, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 9/10/19 6:08 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
>> On 9/10/19 3:17 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
>>> Today we were testing creating 200 virtual station vdevs on ath9k,
>>> and using
>>> VRF for the routing.
>>
>> Looks like the same issue happens w/out VRF, but there I have oodles
>> of routing
>> rules, so it is an area ripe for failure.
>>
>> Will upgrade to 5.2.14+ and retest, and try 4.20 as well....
> 
> Turns out, this was ipsec (strongswan) inserting a rule that pointed to
> a table
> that we then used for a vrf w/out realizing the rule was added.
> 
> Stopping strongswan and/or reconfiguring how routing tables are assigned
> resolved the issue.
> 

Hi Ben:

Since you are the pioneer with vrf and ipsec, can you add an ipsec
section with some notes to Documentation/networking/vrf.txt?