mirrors/linux — pull request #2 by wertarbyte (2013-07-25 17:58:19+00:00)
Title: fib_rules/fib6_rules: add minimum prefix length

This change adds a minimum prefix length to the structures of routing rules.
If a rule is added with a minimum prefix length >0, only routes meeting this
threshold will be considered. Any other (more general) routing table entries
will be ignored.

When configuring a system with multiple network uplinks and default routes, it
is often convinient to reference the main routing table multiple times - but
omitting the default route. Using this patch and a modified "ip" utility, this
can be achieved by using the following command sequence:

$ ip route add table secuplink default via 10.42.23.1

$ ip rule add pref 100 table main prefixlength 1
$ ip rule add pref 150 fwmark 0xA table secuplink

With this setup, packets marked 0xA will be processed by the additional routing
table "secuplink", but only if no suitable route in the main routing table can
be found. By using a minimal prefixlength of 1, the default route (/0) of the
table "main" is hidden to packets processed by rule 100; packets traveling to
destinations with more specific routing entries are processed as usual.