Hello-

A number of us are working on an OSS overlay network system called
flannel. It is used in a variety of Linux container systems and one of
the backends is VXLAN.

The issue we have: when creating the VXLAN interface and assigning it
an address we see a broadcast route being added by the Kernel. For
example if we have 10.4.0.0/16 a broadcast route to 10.4.0.0 is
created. This route is unwanted because we assign 10.4.0.0 to one of
our VXLAN interfaces.

However, the Kernel interface bring-up comment reads: Add network
specific broadcasts, when it takes a sense. The code is here:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c#L859-L872

Can someone explain why creation of the broadcast route is
non-optional? Would a patch to make it optional be acceptable? Is it
safe for us to simply delete the route? We have a patch that simply
deletes the broadcast route after interface creation but don't know
why the Kernel code "makes sense".

You can read more information about the issue here:
https://github.com/coreos/flannel/pull/569

Thank You,

Brandon

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