[Cerowrt-devel] ipv6 confusion with source specific gateways.

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke at toke.dk
Wed Nov 26 02:40:14 EST 2014


>default from :: via fe80::201:5cff:ee62:b646 dev ge00  proto static 
>metric 1024
># should I even have a default route at all?

The source on this is actually ::/128 so it's not a default route in the sense that it will forward arbitrary traffic through it. It is needed for IPv6 packets that originate on the host but where the application doesn't specify an address to bind to. To see that, try removing it and then ping6 something you don't have a specific route to...


>Now, where my brain crashes: shouldn't 2601:c:ce00:9d1::/64 actually
>be something like
>
>2601:c:ce00:9d01::/64 not, 2601:c:ce00:9d1::/64?
>
>(see the 01?)?

2601:c:ce00:9d01 is 2601:000c:ce00:9d01
2601:c:ce00:9d1 is 2601:000c:ce00:09d1

So no? :)

-Toke



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