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Re: weirdness with ipv6 routing



According to Wichert Akkerman:
> Previously Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
> > 	Do you have a route for 2000::/3 on your gateway pointing through
> > your tunnel connection? This seems to be a necessary static route to put
> > on any Linux IPv6 enabled kernel to get routing to work properly as it
> > does not work with the default route only.
> 
> Wow, that was the magic trick! Does anyone know exactly why that is
> needed?
> 
Default routes are NOT used in the IPv6 linux stack when forwarding
packets... This is not a bug, this is a feature.. and yes... a lot of
people have a different opinions about it... ;(

-- 
Michel Onstein
Next Element B.V.

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