Re: why autoconfiguration work's while shouldn't ? :)

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <20010222175523.A17144@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Thu, 22 Feb 2001 
17:55:23 +0100), Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <misiek@xxxxxxxxxx> says:

> after a while when kernel tries autoconfiguration
> (Feb 22 17:51:30 arm kernel: eth0: no IPv6 routers present)
:
> default dev eth0  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1500
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> It adds few one default route which blows everything.
> Can someone explain me why such route is added?
:
> Bug or I'm missing something?

This is not a bug.

If there're no routers, we must assume all destination are on-link.
(RFC2461 5.2)

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