Bug#901255: netcfg-static: Unable to configure fe80::1 as a gateway
Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> writes:
> It's a matter of someone fixing the code. It seems Igor Scheller is
> happy to work on it, he just needs a way forward, not being only told
> that what is currently there is nonsense.
Well, using fe80::1 as default gateway would not be a problem if it
weren't for the existing nonsensical code. Don't know how to say that in
any other way.
Selecting a default router is described in
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4861#section-6.3.6
which points to
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4861#section-7.3
for the reachability detection.
So if you take a single default router address as input, then the
validation bolis down to sending a Neighbor Solicitation and seeing if
you receive a Neighbor Advertisement back.
Bjørn
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