In article <20040628010200.A15067@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Mon, 28 Jun 2004
01:02:01 +0100), Russell King <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> says:
> Ok, I've just tried 2.6.7 out on my root-NFS'd firewall with IPv6 built
> in, and it doesn't work because of the problem I described below.
:
> What's the solution?
Bring lo up before bring others up.
What does prevent you from doing this?
(Do we need some bits to do this automatically?)
> Is there a good reason why IPv6 uses the loopback device for local
> routes?
IPv6 creates kernel routes for local addresses on lo to receive
packets for local address.
Well, someone probably wants to have
static local routes on ethX + temprary (cache) local routes on lo
(as IPv4 does; correct me if I'm wrong.)
But this won't work because IPv6 does DAD when we make some interface up.
We need lo anyway.
--yoshfuji
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