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Re: 2.4.21+ - IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling b0rked

To: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 2.4.21+ - IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling b0rked
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:08:20 +0300 (EEST)
Cc: cat@xxxxxxxxxx, <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <20030711.005542.04973601.yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / [iso-2022-jp] 吉藤英明 wrote:
> In article <20030710154302.GE1722@xxxxxxxxxx> (at Fri, 11 Jul 2003 01:43:03 
> +1000), CaT <cat@xxxxxxxxxx> says:
> 
> > With 2.4.21-pre2 I can get a nice tunnel going over my ppp connection
> > and as such get ipv6 connectivity. I think went to 2.4.21 and then to
> > 2.4.22-pre4 and bringing up the tunnel fails as follows:
> :
> > ip addr add 3ffe:8001:000c:ffff::37/127 dev sit1
> >  ip route add ::/0 via 3ffe:8001:000c:ffff::36 
> > RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
> 
> This is not bug, but rather misconfiguration;
> you cannot use prefix::, which is mandatory subnet routers 
> anycast address, as unicast address.

While technically correct, I'm still not sure if this is (pragmatically) 
the correct approach.  It's OK to set a default route to go to the 
subnet routers anycast address (so, setting a route to prefix:: should 
not give you EINVAL).

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Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
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