Description of problem: The default route doesn't work, received packet can't be forward to the gateway indicated by default route. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhel kernel 2.6.18-53.el5 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1.receive a network unreachable packet 2.add a default 3.receive a packet which doesn't match other routes Actual results: The packet can't be forwarded to default route's gateway. Expected results: The packet should be forwarded to default route's gateway. Additional info:
Created attachment 290469 [details] A patch for fixing this problem
when adding a default route, RHEL5.1 kernel regards this action as a special case. when this scenario happens, kernel doesn't update the round-robin point(fn->rr_ptr) of the root fib node(fn->rr_ptr). So It fails when lookup the default route. This bug has been fixed in the latest kernel.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8349
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in kernel-2.6.18-98.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5
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