On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 07:14:24PM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > > Once you're doing that, it's probably easier to handle L=1 by simply > > adding the on-link route directly, rather than adding the address as a > > /64 and relying on the kernel to add the route for you. The two should > > result in the same functionality, though, so I'm don't really understand > > what's actually broken here. > > I guess it breaks generation of privacy addresses.
It also had some affect of anycast address generation. > But you are right, essentially it should work but some assumptions were > made in the kernel which should have been checked first. I guess they're switching back to 64 while suppressing automatically addding prefix routes: <http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/307389/> This feature should also be available in iproute then. Greetings, Hannes
