> Routing and forwarding decisions are completely independent of what > addresses are configured on the interface. Contrary to IPv4 behavior, > the configuration of an address using P::/64 prefix does not > automatically add a route to the P::/64 prefix. What prefixes are > on-link is determined by > > a) on a router - by configuration > b) on a host - by information contained in the RAs
It may be sacrilege to mention it in this group - but b) here is certainly not the only view of how things work (or for that matter how they *should* work). For instance - FreeBSD 7.x needs explicit configuration to turn on IPv6. If IPv6 is turned on, you can configure a static IPv6 address (for instance a /64 prefix) for an interface - and this will indeed add a route to this /64 network. Or you can use various types of autoconfiguration. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
