Craig Small wrote: > Generally 'routers' cannot use ipv6 default routes. When they (those > wacky kernel people) mean routers, I think they mean a host with more > than one interface.
You mean Linux 'routers' in that case I assume... E.g. Cisco has no problems whatsoever with a ::/0 route. > You're not the first person to get caught by this, as it says at > http://people.debian.org/~csmall/ipv6/setup.html > > 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. > > Very annoying and it gives very wierd results. If you use radvd for stateless autoconfiguration, you'll get a ::/0 route to the link-local address of the router issuing the RAs. I'm not entirely sure though whether that's correct and expected behaviour. cheers, Remco.