Problem with routing in the IPv6 stack

Robert Olsson (Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se)
Fri, 23 May 2003 11:10:10 +0200


Frank Victor Fischer writes:

> I have encountered the following error message when trying to set up a
> new entry in the IPv6 routing table with the command "ip -6 route add":
>
> RTNETLINK answers: Cannot allocate memory
>
> This has happened after I have had a working IPv6 configuration for
> several days, and the error message is independent from the interface on
> which I am trying to establish the route on.
>
> vanilla linux kernel 2.4.20 patches with XFS 1.2 and IPsec 1.98b.

I've heard about this on 2.5.66 as well. /proc/slabinfo can give some clues.

Cheers.

--ro
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