iproute2 can inconsistently show the name of protocol 0 if a route with a custom protocol is added. For example: dsa@cartman:~$ ip -6 ro ls table all | egrep 'proto none|proto unspec' local ::1 dev lo table local proto none metric 0 pref medium local fe80::225:90ff:fecb:1c18 dev lo table local proto none metric 0 pref medium local fe80::92e2:baff:fe5c:da5d dev lo table local proto none metric 0 pref medium
protocol 0 is pretty printed as "none". Add a route with a custom protocol: dsa@cartman:~$ sudo ip -6 ro add 2001:db8:200::1/128 dev eth0 proto 123 And now display has switched from "none" to "unspec": dsa@cartman:~$ ip -6 ro ls table all | egrep 'proto none|proto unspec' local ::1 dev lo table local proto unspec metric 0 pref medium local fe80::225:90ff:fecb:1c18 dev lo table local proto unspec metric 0 pref medium local fe80::92e2:baff:fe5c:da5d dev lo table local proto unspec metric 0 pref medium The rt_protos file has the id to name mapping as "unspec" while rtnl_rtprot_tab[0] has "none". The presence of a custom protocol id triggers reading the rt_protos file and overwriting the string in rtnl_rtprot_tab. All of this is logic from 2004 and earlier. Update rtnl_rtprot_tab to "unspec" to match the enum value. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <d...@cumulusnetworks.com> --- v2 - update rtnl_rtprot_tab instead of rt_protos file as requested by Stephen lib/rt_names.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/rt_names.c b/lib/rt_names.c index 3a16d5cf9bb5..04c15ff5b15f 100644 --- a/lib/rt_names.c +++ b/lib/rt_names.c @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ static void rtnl_tab_initialize(const char *file, char **tab, int size) } static char *rtnl_rtprot_tab[256] = { - [RTPROT_UNSPEC] = "none", + [RTPROT_UNSPEC] = "unspec", [RTPROT_REDIRECT] = "redirect", [RTPROT_KERNEL] = "kernel", [RTPROT_BOOT] = "boot", -- 2.1.4