From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263972AbTEWI5j (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2003 04:57:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263973AbTEWI5j (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2003 04:57:39 -0400 Received: from robur.slu.se ([130.238.98.12]:41732 "EHLO robur.slu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263972AbTEWI5g (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2003 04:57:36 -0400 From: Robert Olsson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16077.58738.336652.577890@robur.slu.se> Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 11:10:10 +0200 To: celestar@t-online.de (Frank Victor Fischer) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Problem with routing in the IPv6 stack In-Reply-To: <1053469464.2637.10.camel@darkstar.fischer.homeip.net> References: <1053469464.2637.10.camel@darkstar.fischer.homeip.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.92 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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