Re: weirdness with ipv6 routing
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 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.
Hey Wichert didn't I tell you so? :)
> Wow, that was the magic trick! Does anyone know exactly why that is
> needed?
It's an ongoing discussion. The linux-ipv6 people made it work with a
::/0 route, the current main stream kernel wants 2000::/3. As per IETF
documents, all globally routable IPv6 addresses fall within that bit
mask and hence you could say that it makes sense to 'filter' it that
way on your router. But that's only valid for border routers, as
site-local addresses (fec0::/48) are not included but may not be
reachable for a node without going through some router.
regards,
Remco.
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