Martin Burnicki <[email protected]> wrote: >> It sounds like you use a disconnected IPv6 network alongside a >> connected RFC1918 v4 network internally. I wonder if you could get by >> using only link-local addresses for your internal IPv6 network? I >> believe that would solve the problem because your stack would know it >> can't connect to a global v6 address from a machine with only link- >> local v6 addresses. > > *This* is a very good hint. A quick check on some machines shows the problem > I've described occurs only on machines which have both link-local and > global IPv6 addresses assigned to their network interface. > > However, I've personally installed some of the machines and didn't care > about IPv6 settings of the interfaces. So whether a global IPv6 address has > been assigned or not seems to depend on the policy of the specific Linux > distribution and/or version of the IP stack.
It depends on the presence of a router that hands out global addresses, and on the presence of a daemon that asks for those addresses and assigns them to the interface. Both of them could be present or not. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
