From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
To: Mohan Lal Jangir <mohanlal@samsung.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ipv6 route configuration
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:09:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <491DBEED.3090009@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E7B3A98D9974986B65CC4E3C9409B3C@samsung4qkw9nm>
Mohan Lal Jangir wrote:
> [foo:/root] route -A inet6 add 2::/64 gw 2::1 dev eth5
> SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument
> [foo:/root]
> Could someone please tell why route addition tells invalid argument ?
Because 2::1 is in the reserved address space (see
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-address-space) and the kernel needs
to have a unicast address for the gateway. You could try using the
link-local address (which is preferred) for that system instead. Or use
a real global prefix or generate a ULA.
-Brian
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2008-11-14 9:38 ipv6 route configuration Mohan Lal Jangir
2008-11-14 18:09 ` Brian Haley [this message]
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