Bug#901255: netcfg-static: Unable to configure fe80::1 as a gateway
Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> writes:
> Bjørn Mork, le mar. 12 juin 2018 13:30:39 +0200, a ecrit:
>> But this will:
>>
>> frtest3:~# ip route add 2001:db8:f00::1/128 dev eth1
>
> So this is a route, which can be checked for.
No, it is a route you can safely add. Checking for it is no point. It
does not have to exist prior to adding the gateway.
>> > which is the point of the test AIUI.
>>
>> The test is pointless. There is absolutely no requirement that the
>> gateway should be part of any larger on-link prefix or related to any of
>> the configured host addresses in any way.
>
> Please scratch from your mind whatever you thought I meant.
>
> What I meant is that a route is needed for that. That is what we can
> really check for to provide useful feedback to a user making a typo,
> before trying to reach something on the Internet that might just be
> randomly off.
Noe, you can't check this. It makes no sense. But I think we are
running in circles now. let's just flag the Debian IPv6 implementation
as broken on this point and move on.
Bjør
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