From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / =?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCNUhGIzFRTEAbKEI=?= Subject: Re: IPv6 connect() from site-local to global IPv6 address. Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 11:39:04 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <20060506.113904.63157190.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> References: <1146862832.2766.54.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20060506.091920.122414672.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> <1146876802.2503.32.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org Return-path: Received: from yue.linux-ipv6.org ([203.178.140.15]:38917 "EHLO yue.st-paulia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751802AbWEFCjE (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 22:39:04 -0400 To: dwmw2@infradead.org In-Reply-To: <1146876802.2503.32.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org In article <1146876802.2503.32.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> (at Sat, 06 May 2006 01:53:21 +0100), David Woodhouse says: > There is a default route, because I believe that's the only thing that > radvd can do. I cannot advertise a route to _only_ fec0::/16, can I? Yes, you can, via Route Information option. (>= 2.6.17-rc1 support this.) Anyway, it is valid to use (obsolete) site-local source address for global destination address. The problem seems that router does NOT send ICMPv6 destination unreachable to the sender. I don't know why, but it SHOULD. --yoshfuji