Netlink: Cannot allocate memory (solved)

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:09:25PM +0100, Petr Šťastný wrote:
>    All right. I solved this problem after hours of googling.
> 
>    It is caused by the limit of enteries in IPv6 kernel routing table, which
>    is defined in /proc/sys/net/ipv6/route/max_size and is 4096 by default.
>    But we have more than 4096 IPv6 routes, so it crashed when adding 4097th
>    entry into kernel table. But it also took down OSPF communication.

Thanks for a note. I didn't know about this limit.

> 
>    Maybe bird should check this limit and tell more interesting error
>    message? Thanks.

It would be probably better to put that to some doc/FAQ.

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