Trouble with IPv6 and VRFs: Cannot assign requested address

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 07:25:50PM +0100, Ralf Jung wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Thanks for interesting logs, it is possible that this is a kernel bug,
> > the implementation is pretty fresh and there were few issues with it in
> > the past.
> 
> I was beginning to suspect the same.
> 
> What would be a good place for the bug report?  Some kernel teams seem to prefer
> Bugzilla and others their mailing lists, and I have a very mixed track record
> for getting any reaction at all from kernel bug reports (as in, about half my
> reports never got any reply).

I would suggest linux-netdev mailing list and Cc to David Ahern <dsahern at gmail.com>.


> > You could try modified configurations (e.g. multihop instead of direct,
> > real ethernet interface (or dummy interface) instead of tun interface)
> > to see if the issue is related to some of these variants.
> 
> Unfortunately I only control one side of the BGP session here, and I don't have
> any BGP experience so I wouldn't even know how to go about doing such experiments.

For this you do not need the other side - the error happens immediately
when BIRD tries to initiate the connection, so it does not matter if
anyone listens on the other side.

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