On 2018/11/28 18:33, Martin Pieuchot wrote: > That could be a solution. But if you do that, why don't you attach the > routes to a routable address in the first place? > > Why is ospfd(8) not doing that?
It's how the OSPFv3 protocol works for IPv6 addresses, it doesn't know the globally-routable address for the interface (AFAIK it doesn't even *need* a globally routable address on the interface - can just have link-locals there and one global address, e.g. just on a loopback address).