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SubjectRe: ipv6: default route for link local address is not added while assigning a address
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 05:33:08PM +0100, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> CC: netdev
>
> Le 10/01/2014 13:20, sohny thomas a écrit :
> >Default route for link local address is configured automatically if
> >NETWORKING_IPV6=yes is in ifcfg-eth*.
> >When the route table for the interface is flushed and a new address is
> >added to
> >the same device with out removing linklocal addr, default route for link
> >local
> >address has to added by default.
> I would say that removing the link local route but not the link local
> address
> is a configuration problem.
> If you remove a connected route but not the associated address, you will
> have
> the same problem.

We have some user accessible routes that are essential for IPv6 stack
to work at all. So I don't know if I can agree with that.

Maybe flush is a bit too aggressive?

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