Hello everybody, I will be glad to hear a piece of feedback on this proposal.
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Alexander Zubkov <zubkov...@gmail.com> wrote: > I also opened earlier a ticket in bugzilla: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197899 > And Stephen Hemminger had couple of comments there which I want to argue: > >> $ ip route list default >> Means list all routes in any address family (ie same as any) >> but >> >> $ ip route list 0/0 >> Means list all routes for IPv4 default route. > > This is not correct, because first command do not show routes in any > address family. Now it do so only when table 0 is specified, otherwise > only IPv4 routes are showed. Here is the code from iproute.c: > > if (do_ipv6 == AF_UNSPEC && filter.tb) > do_ipv6 = AF_INET; > >> It probably is worth a man page warning, but changing semantics >> that have existed for many years is more likely to break some existing user. > > Yes, backward compatibility is a reason. But as I remember, that > sematics already have changed earlier. Probably it was showing IPv4 > and IPv6 routes together without family specified - I do not remember > exactly. And I have doubts that such feature could be lied on > reliably. > I as a end user would prefer to make the behaviour more consistent and > without such excetptions. But of course there may be other opinions. > > On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Alexander Zubkov <zubkov...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have found odd behaviour when using "ip route list" (and other bound >> commands) with prefix "default". >> >> When family not specified, its value is completely ignored and "ip >> route list default" shows all inet4 prefixes. Same do "ip route list >> exact default" and "ip route list match default". Examples are at the >> end of the message. >> >> When family is specified, the behaviour changes and default works as >> expected (=0.0.0.0/0 for inet4 and =::/0 for inet6). The above >> commands all shows only default prefix in the output and only "root >> default" shows all prefixes. >> >> I tried to dig into the code and found that when default is using with >> unspecified family - the resulting structures filter.[mr]dst will >> actually become all-zeroes as in the case when nothing is specified. >> >> I propose to change this in such a way (see attached patch). When >> default prefix is parsed, the flag PREFIXLEN_SPECIFIED is attached to >> it too, like for prefixes with "/<masklen>". It seems logical to me, >> because "/0" is really implied by "default" and even directly set up >> in the code: >> >> dst->bitlen = 0; >> >> Then during filtering there is additional logic for unspecified family >> and specified prefix. >> >> With this patch ip route list commands shown above are working as >> expected. And it also works with unspecified table when routes are >> printed from different families. >> >> Examples after applying the patch: >> >> # ./ip route list >> default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 >> 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.1 >> 192.168.1.0/24 via 192.168.0.3 dev eth0 >> # ./ip -6 route list >> fe80::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium >> fe80:1::/64 via fe80::3 dev eth0 metric 1024 pref medium >> default via fe80::2 dev eth0 metric 1024 pref medium >> # ./ip route list default >> default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 >> # ./ip route list exact default >> default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 >> # ./ip route list match default >> default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 >> # ./ip route list root default >> default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 >> 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.1 >> 192.168.1.0/24 via 192.168.0.3 dev eth0 >> # ./ip route list default table all >> default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 >> unreachable default dev lo proto kernel metric 4294967295 error -101 pref >> medium >> default via fe80::2 dev eth0 metric 1024 pref medium >> unreachable default dev lo proto kernel metric 4294967295 error -101 pref >> medium >> unreachable default dev lo proto kernel metric 4294967295 error -101 pref >> medium >> # ./ip route list root default table all >> default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 >> 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.1 >> ... >> ff00::/8 dev eth0 table local metric 256 pref medium >> unreachable default dev lo proto kernel metric 4294967295 error -101 pref >> medium >> >> And before patch: >> >> # ip route list default >> default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 >> 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.1 >> 192.168.1.0/24 via 192.168.0.3 dev eth0 >> # ip route list match default >> default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 >> 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.1 >> 192.168.1.0/24 via 192.168.0.3 dev eth0 >> # ip route list exact default >> default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 >> 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.1 >> 192.168.1.0/24 via 192.168.0.3 dev eth0 >> # ip -4 route list exact default >> default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 >> # ip -6 route list exact default >> default via fe80::2 dev eth0 metric 1024 >> # ip route list exact default table all >> default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 >> 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.1 >> ... >> local fe80::3c09:19ff:feee:9866 dev lo table local proto none metric 0 >> ff00::/8 dev eth0 table local metric 256 >> unreachable default dev lo table unspec proto kernel metric >> 4294967295 error -101
