libs/sys: workaround for Lua number overflow in ipv6 route metrics

diff --git a/libs/sys/luasrc/sys.lua b/libs/sys/luasrc/sys.lua
index d9fe5ab25bfd83f901d633ebdabbffba0d9510fc..f30a2b679c15e6a29c5b4a1d6ad51ee54f75edaf 100644 (file)
--- a/libs/sys/luasrc/sys.lua
+++ b/libs/sys/luasrc/sys.lua
@@ -463,7 +463,11 @@ function net.routes6(callback)
                                refcount = tonumber(refcnt, 16),
                                usecount = tonumber(usecnt, 16),
                                flags    = tonumber(flags, 16),
-                               device   = dev
+                               device   = dev,
+
+                               -- lua number is too small for storing the metric
+                               -- add a metric_raw field with the original content
+                               metric_raw = metric
                        }
 
                        if callback then