Linux IPv6 routing strange behaviour

[Hannes Frederic Sowa]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 02:11:32PM +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> [Sorry, missed the list]
> 
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 02:38:30PM +0300, Max Tulyev wrote:
> > Hi Hannes,
> > 
> > The situation is same on 2.6.36-gentoo-r8 and 3.10.6-gentoo.
> > 3.10.6-gentoo is a bit worse: quagga/bgpd is hang at start-up in most cases.
> 
> This is happening without the router forwarding packets?
> 
> > 
> > cat /proc/net/ipv6_route
> > cat: /proc/net/ipv6_route: Cannot allocate memory
> 
> Could you try ip -6 route list table all instead? I would be interested in the
> cloned network routes. It could also be because of equal cost multipathing or
> IPV6_SUBTREES.
> 
> But I actually need the flags on the routes, so perhaps you could drop some
> routes when importing the full-feed in quagga?

You can also monitor routing insertion/deletion with ip -6 monitor route.