Long ago, Nostradamus foresaw that on 08/09/2012 08:48 AM, Pavel Simerda would write: > DHCPv6 should not care about *any* routes.
>> and prefixes should only be used in routers. > I don't understand this. > The problem that was confusing me is that NM was setting a (hardwired by dhclient) prefix length of 64 on DHCP addresses (including in Fedora 17), for example: inet6 2001:db8:1:234::15b9 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0<global> Tore Andrews says that the correct solution is to simply ignore the (often incorrect and hardwired) prefixlen passed by dhclient. The prefixlen is only used to know when to send directly to a subnet. Forgive my ignorance, but when you have an address on a /80 LAN subnet, isn't it more efficient to send packets for that subnet directly, rather than bouncing them off a router? Unless I am missing something, you can only send the packets directly when you know the correct prefixlen. Or is there some automatic kernel mechanism that figures out directly accessible prefixes? _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
