Subject: Re: [BUG][iproute2][5.0] ip route show table default: "Error: ipv4: FIB table does not exist."

From: <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 18:02:54 +0100 (CET)

Mar 24, 2019, 2:17 PM by [email-masked]:

> On 3/23/19 7:00 AM, > [email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>>  wrote:
>
>> After upgrading iproute2 from 4.20 to 5.0 the following error occurs:
>>
>> $ ip route show table default
>> Error: ipv4: FIB table does not exist.
>> Dump terminated
>>
>> The command works for all tables other than 'default' one. It seems related to this commit[1]
>>
>
>
> 'default' maps to table 253, and the table has not been created in the
> kernel. Local (255) and main (254) do exist.
>
Ok but previous versions of iproute2 didn't treat this as error and didn't exited with non-zero status. Is non existing default route a system error which needs fixing?