On Apr 27, 7:16am, [email protected] (Ted Lemon) wrote: -- Subject: Re: default ipv6 route?
| On Apr 24, 2015, at 9:55 AM, Christos Zoulas <[email protected]> wrote: | > One of my ISProviders is TWC. If you don't use DHCPv6, what you | > end up is the link-local address for each interface (which you get | > anyway), and a default route to the link-local address of the TWC | > router (through RA's), which is not useful if you don't have a real | > IPv6 address on any of your interfaces. | >=20 | > This made things work very slowly, because everything tried IPv6 | > first because of the default route (until it timed-out). | | Shouldn't the link-local address fail source address selection? It might = | be interesting to try to figure out exactly how this is happening. It see= | ms like a fail to try to use an IPv6 default route when you have no valid s= | ource address candidates. Perhaps that's a good idea, and I think other OS's do that. I've added debugging and it is easy enough to reproduce it... christos
