Hello Martin! Thanks for your bug report.
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 06:56:10PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > The following is correct syntax according to manpage and > http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html#AEN298, but it > doesn't seem to work for ipv6: > > # ip -6 route add default nexthop via 2001:470:25:94::1 weight 1 nexthop via > 2001:41e0:ff00:47::1 weight 1 > Error: an IP address is expected rather than "2001:470:25:94::1" > I think the problematic function has been located but I don't know if the attached patch is the correct solution, your testing would be appreciated. -- Andreas Henriksson
diff --git a/ip/iproute.c b/ip/iproute.c
index bf0f31b..20fce76 100644
--- a/ip/iproute.c
+++ b/ip/iproute.c
@@ -609,9 +609,14 @@ int parse_one_nh(struct rtattr *rta, struct rtnexthop *rtnh, int *argcp, char **
while (++argv, --argc > 0) {
if (strcmp(*argv, "via") == 0) {
+ inet_prefix addr;
+
NEXT_ARG();
- rta_addattr32(rta, 4096, RTA_GATEWAY, get_addr32(*argv));
- rtnh->rtnh_len += sizeof(struct rtattr) + 4;
+
+ get_addr(&addr, *argv, AF_UNSPEC);
+ rta_addattr_l(rta, 4096, RTA_GATEWAY,
+ addr.data, addr.bytelen);
+ rtnh->rtnh_len += sizeof(struct rtattr) + addr.bytelen;
} else if (strcmp(*argv, "dev") == 0) {
NEXT_ARG();
if ((rtnh->rtnh_ifindex = ll_name_to_index(*argv)) == 0) {
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