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| author | Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com> | 2017-10-18 10:24:28 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2017-10-20 13:03:03 +0100 |
| commit | 17c918840fb07e5819f8df03345d7f4a5e5b791c (patch) | |
| tree | ce6a93f3abc9d42f97b99c04ed180a561f6814de /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | 9854d758f7215ceea7da625cb421e0674846b53c (diff) | |
doc: Update VRF documentation metric
Two things:
1) Update examples to show usage of metric
2) Discuss reasoning for using such a high metric.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/vrf.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt b/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt index 3918dae964d4..8ff7b4c8f91b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt @@ -71,7 +71,12 @@ Setup ip ru add iif vrf-blue table 10 3. Set the default route for the table (and hence default route for the VRF). - ip route add table 10 unreachable default + ip route add table 10 unreachable default metric 4278198272 + + This high metric value ensures that the default unreachable route can + be overridden by a routing protocol suite. FRRouting interprets + kernel metrics as a combined admin distance (upper byte) and priority + (lower 3 bytes). Thus the above metric translates to [255/8192]. 4. Enslave L3 interfaces to a VRF device. ip link set dev eth1 master vrf-blue @@ -256,7 +261,7 @@ older form without it. For example: $ ip route show vrf red - prohibit default + unreachable default metric 4278198272 broadcast 10.2.1.0 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 10.2.1.2 10.2.1.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 10.2.1.2 local 10.2.1.2 dev eth1 proto kernel scope host src 10.2.1.2 @@ -282,7 +287,7 @@ older form without it. ff00::/8 dev red metric 256 pref medium ff00::/8 dev eth1 metric 256 pref medium ff00::/8 dev eth2 metric 256 pref medium - + unreachable default dev lo metric 4278198272 error -101 pref medium 8. Route Lookup for a VRF @@ -331,7 +336,7 @@ function vrf_create ip link add ${VRF} type vrf table ${TBID} if [ "${VRF}" != "mgmt" ]; then - ip route add table ${TBID} unreachable default + ip route add table ${TBID} unreachable default metric 4278198272 fi ip link set dev ${VRF} up } |