Subject: Re: [RFC] ipv6: don't flush routes when setting loopback down

From: [email-masked] (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:17:36 -0800

Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]> writes:

> When loopback device is being brought down, then keep the route table
> entries because they are special. The entries in the local table for
> linklocal routes and ::1 address should not be purged.
>
> This is a sub optimal solution to the problem and should be replaced
> by a better fix in future.

I will test this and let you know how it goes from my side.

I would really like to get a fix for this in before -rc7,
as this bug makes the kernel unusable for me.

Eric