RHEL6: Ipv6 rt6_stats is broken in some releases
Issue
- We are using the below command which was suggested by Redhat for RHEL 6.5 in RHEL 6.6 as well to retrieve IPv6 route cache size.
# cat /proc/net/rt6_stats| awk '{print strtonum("0x" $6)}'
This is also mentioned in Redhat knowledge base article https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2619121 and https://access.redhat.com/articles/2653931
- However, this interface looks to be broken in RHEL 6.6. We get a huge value using the above command (the real cache use is low which is verified using
ip -6 r show cache
command).
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Ipv6
- See resolution section for affected releases
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