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From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: fe80::/64 route missing on GRE tunnels
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:34:07 +0100
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Le 17/02/2014 11:17, Steinar H. Gunderson a =C3=A9crit :
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:59:38AM +0100, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
>>> It is added (ip -6 addr add fe80::1 dev foo), but it doesn't help w=
ithout the
>>> /64 being present.
>> With 'ip -6 addr add fe80::1/64 dev foo', the link local route will =
be added.
>
> Possible, but you're still breaking userspace. You could argue the tu=
nnel
> setup system in question should have added a /64 in the first place, =
but it
> is deployed at a number of locations and changing all of them is not =
trivial.
I will propose a patch (instead of reverting the original one).