Re: default routes
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:27:33PM -0300, horape@tinuviel.compendium.net.ar wrote:
> >Default routes bounce packets. Having a default route in Linux for IPv6 can
> >often lead to severe hair loss as you tear whatever is remaining out. For
> >reasons best left to the kernel hackers, using default routes just doesn't
> >work right (ok you may be lucky). Use 2000::0/3 instead.
>
> Does somebody knows what's the problem? That renders autoconfiguration
> useless.
The reason for using 2000::0/3 instead of default is not, as decribed above,
but the problem was with nettools (like route) unable to understand the
"default" value. This should be fixed. You can now safely use default in
route or iproute2.
(Bernd, net-tools Upstream Co-Maintainer and Debian Package Maintainer)
Greetings
Bernd
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