NetBSD Problem Report #52197
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Subject: route show [-inet6] truncates and/or misaligns ipv6 numeric addresses
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>Number: 52197
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: route show [-inet6] truncates and/or misaligns ipv6 numeric addresses
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Apr 27 16:05:00 +0000 2017
>Originator: Bruce Lilly
>Release: 7.0 STABLE (earliest tested) through 7.1 (latest tested)
>Organization:
>Environment:
$ uname -ors
NetBSD 7.0_STABLE NetBSD
# uname -ors
NetBSD 7.1 NetBSD
>Description:
route show (w/o -n) sometimes outputs unresolved numeric addresses; these are truncated in the output, with misleading semantics, e.g. (numeric addresses obfuscated for privacy):
# route show -inet6 | sed -e 's/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f]:/XXXX:/g' -e 's/:[0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f]/:XXXX/g' -e 's/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]:/XX:/g' -e 's/:[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]/:XX/g'
Routing tables
Internet6:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Mtu Interface
default XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:0:a UG - - - bge0
localhost localhost UH - - 33648 lo0
XXXX:XXXX:XXXX::/6 link#1 U - - - bge0
XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:0:7 XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX UHL - - - lo0
XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:0:a XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX UHL - - - bge0
XXXX::%bge0/64 link#1 U - - - bge0
XXXX::XXXX:XXXX:XX XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX UHL - - - lo0
XXXX::XXXX:XXXX:XX XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX UHL - - - bge0
XXXX::%lo0/64 XXXX::1 U - - - lo0
XXXX:1::/32 link#1 U - - - bge0
XXXX:3::/32 localhost U - - - lo0
XXXX::%bge0/32 link#1 U - - - bge0
XXXX::XX link#1 UHL - - - bge0
XXXX::%lo0/32 localhost U - - - lo0
In the above output, the first numeric destination is shown as a /6 block when it is in fact a /64 block, which is quite a different thing.
With -n, route (via rtutil.c) widens the fields for inet6, but the fields are then misaligned because (1) the spacing of the headings does not match the data field widths and (2) the field widths do not match the data widths. E.g.:
# route -n show -inet6 | sed -e 's/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f]:/XXXX:/g' -e 's/:[0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f]/:XXXX/g' -e 's/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]:/XX:/g' -e 's/:[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]/:XX/g'
Routing tables
Internet6:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Mtu Interface
default XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:0:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX UG - - - bge0
::1 ::1 UH - - 33648 lo0
XXXX:XXXX:XXXX::/64 link#1 U - - - bge0
XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:0:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX UHL - - - lo0
XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:0:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX UHL - - - bge0
XXXX::%bge0/64 link#1 U - - - bge0
XXXX::XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX UHL - - - lo0
XXXX::XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX UHL - - - bge0
XXXX::%lo0/64 XXXX::1 U - - - lo0
XXXX:1::/32 link#1 U - - - bge0
XXXX:3::/32 ::1 U - - - lo0
XXXX::%bge0/32 link#1 U - - - bge0
XXXX::XX link#1 UHL - - - bge0
XXXX::%lo0/32 ::1 U - - - lo0
Note that some destination addresses extend into the Gateway field, some gateway addresses extend into the Flags field; Flags and later fields do not line up.
>How-To-Repeat:
See examples in the Full description.
>Fix:
No fix at this time, but it looks like most of the issues are in /usr/src/sbin/route/rtutil.c.
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