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Previously, we would add exclusive routes via netlink message flags NLM_F_CREATE | NLM_F_REPLACE for RTM_NEWROUTE. Similar to `ip route replace`. Using that form of RTM_NEWROUTE message, we could only add a certain route with a certain network/plen,metric triple once. That was already hugely inconvenient, because - when configuring routes, multiple (managed) interfaces may get conflicting routes (multihoming). Only one of the routes can be actually configured using `ip route replace`, so we need to track routes that are currently shadowed. - when configuring routes, we might replace externally configured routes on unmanaged interfaces. We should not interfere with such routes. That was worked around by having NMRouteManager (and NMDefaultRouteManager). NMRouteManager would keep a list of the routes which NetworkManager would like to configure, even if momentarily being unable to do so due to conflicting routes. This worked mostly well but was complicated. It involved bumping metrics to avoid conflicts for device routes, as we might require them for gateway routes. Drop that now. Instead, use the corresponding of `ip route append` to configure routes. This allows NetworkManager to confiure (almost) all routes that we care. Especially, it can configure all routes on a managed interface, without replacing/interfering with routes on other interfaces. Hence, NMRouteManager becomes obsolete. It practice it is a bit more complicated because: - when adding an IPv4 address, kernel will automatically create a device route for the subnet. We should avoid that by using the IFA_F_NOPREFIXROUTE flag for IPv4 addresses (still to-do). But as kernel may not support that flag for IPv4 addresses yet (and we don't require such a kernel yet), we still need functionality similar to nm_route_manager_ip4_route_register_device_route_purge_list(). This functionality is now handled via nm_platform_ip4_dev_route_blacklist_set(). - trying to configure an IPv6 route with a source address will be rejected by kernel as long as the address is tentative (see related bug rh#1457196). Preferably, NMDevice would keep the list of routes which should be configured, while kernel would have the list of what actually is configured. There is a feed-back loop where both affect each other (for example, when externally deleting a route, NMDevice must forget about it too). Previously, NMRouteManager would have the task of remembering all routes which we currently want to configure, but cannot due to conflicting routes. We get rid of that, because now we configure non-exclusive routes. We however still will need to remember IPv6 routes with a source address, that currently cannot be configured yet. Hence, we will need to keep track of routes that currently cannot be configured, but later may be. That is still not done yet, as NMRouteManager didn't handle this correctly either. |
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| test-dcb.c | ||
| test-general-with-expect.c | ||
| test-general.c | ||
| test-ip4-config.c | ||
| test-ip6-config.c | ||
| test-resolvconf-capture.c | ||
| test-secret-agent.py | ||
| test-systemd.c | ||
| test-utils.c | ||
| test-wired-defname.c | ||