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

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Subject: why autoconfiguration work's while shouldn't ? :)
From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <misiek@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:55:23 +0100
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I have small problem with linux kernels up to 2.4.1-pre1 (didn't
tested never versions).

My rc-scripts setup such routes:
[root@arm conf]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start > /dev/null
[root@arm conf]# ip -6 r
3ffe:8010:34:19::/64 dev eth0  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1500
fe80::/10 dev eth0  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1500
fe80::/10 via :: dev t17  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1480
ff00::/8 dev eth0  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1500
ff00::/8 dev t17  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1480
default via fe80::9c11:d7f3 dev t17  metric 1024  mtu 1480
unreachable default dev lo  metric -1  error -101

after a while when kernel tries autoconfiguration
(Feb 22 17:51:30 arm kernel: eth0: no IPv6 routers present)

[root@arm conf]# ip -6 r
3ffe:8010:34:19::/64 dev eth0  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1500
fe80::/10 dev eth0  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1500
fe80::/10 via :: dev t17  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1480
ff00::/8 dev eth0  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1500
ff00::/8 dev t17  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1480
default dev eth0  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1500
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
default via fe80::9c11:d7f3 dev t17  metric 1024  mtu 1480
unreachable default dev lo  metric -1  error -101
[root@arm conf]# 

It adds few one default route which blows everything.
Can someone explain me why such route is added?

Another thing is that it tries autoconfiguration even when:
[root@arm conf]# pwd; ls
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf
all  default  eth0  lo  t17
[root@arm conf]# cat 
{all,default,eth0,t17}/{accept_ra,autoconf,router_solicitations}
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
[root@arm conf]# 

Bug or I'm missing something?

-- 
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, AM2-6BONE    [ PLD GNU/Linux IPv6 ]
http://www.t17.ds.pwr.wroc.pl/~misiek/ipv6/   [ enabled ]

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