problem with 'ip rule show' and table_id >256

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Bastian Bittorf <bittorf at bluebottle.com> wrote:
> during switch-over from 'ifconfig' to 'ip' in the
> OpenWrt project, we recognized that there es an
> behaviour change compared to the full 'iproute2'
> when using 'ip rule show' with numbers > 256 in
> /etc/iproute2/rt_tables - see https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/20650
>
> the problem is in
> networking/libiproute/rt_names.c
> where this file is parsed. the id must
> IMHO be a number from/including 0-32767
>
> any opinions about that?


I increased the limit to 1023 for now.