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From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@samfundet.no>
To: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, itk-intern@samfundet.no,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Subject: Re: fe80::/64 route missing on GRE tunnels
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:17:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140217101730.GC32630@sesse.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5301DD8A.10808@6wind.com>

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 without 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 tunnel
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.

/* Steinar */
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-17 10:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-11 21:55 fe80::/64 route missing on GRE tunnels Steinar H. Gunderson
2014-02-11 21:59 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2014-02-15  7:45   ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-02-15 12:10     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-02-17  9:37       ` Nicolas Dichtel
2014-02-17  9:45         ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2014-02-17  9:59           ` Nicolas Dichtel
2014-02-17 10:17             ` Steinar H. Gunderson [this message]
2014-02-17 10:34               ` Nicolas Dichtel
2014-02-17 13:04                 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-02-17 13:22                 ` [PATCH net] gre: add link local route when local addr is any Nicolas Dichtel
2014-02-17 19:09                   ` David Miller

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