>could you try this patch please. It just prevents multicast addresses
>from being sent to kerneld. The general request-route mechanism is very
>flakey, so it's the best to disable it altogether. There exist userspace
>solutions (for example diald) that work better. Anyways, this patch
>should help.
Let me back this up. Don't worry about the request-route mechanism
being disabled. In fact, it has been removed from the current
development kernels, and those of us maintaining the networking code
for Linux generally agree that it was a mistake. There is no
problem using ppp without this mechanism, and if users want dial
on demand there are at least two better alternatives: diald, and
the latest release of pppd-2.3. Which you prefer depends on how
much configurability you need, and whether you need to support
dynamic IP addresses.
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