netdev - Re: vrf and multicast is broken in some cases

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Message-ID: <561728b3-7527-f455-77c8-02bee2284a18@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 15 Jan 2020 13:24:00 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
        Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: vrf and multicast is broken in some cases

On 1/15/20 1:00 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
> I'll work on adding an un-reachable route when a real gateway is not
> configured...

I recommend a high metric unreachable default route every time you
create a VRF for just the reason Ido mentioned. You can always add a
lower priority default as needed.

I think we need an update to the VRF documetnation.