On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 06:35:42PM +0500, Ivan wrote: > Hello. > I am using bird 1.6 on Linux. > If I run the ripng protocol on the sit tunnel interface, until an IPv6 > LinkLocal address is assigned to the interface, the ripng protocol does not > start (does not receive or send messages). Even if a static unicast IPv6 > address is assigned to the sit interface. > > Can ripng in bird 1.6 implementation use an interface with static unicast > address but without LinkLocal ?
Hello No, BIRD requires link-local IPv6 address on both sides for RIPng - it is not active on ifaces without link-local address, and it ignores RIP packets with source address that is not link local. This is required by RIPng RFC (RFC 2080). -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santi...@crfreenet.org) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
