From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757889AbaAJRQR (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:16:17 -0500 Received: from order.stressinduktion.org ([87.106.68.36]:54638 "EHLO order.stressinduktion.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751952AbaAJRQP (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:16:15 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:16:13 +0100 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa To: Nicolas Dichtel Cc: sohny thomas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, davem@davemloft.net, kumuda , netdev Subject: Re: ipv6: default route for link local address is not added while assigning a address Message-ID: <20140110171613.GA23647@order.stressinduktion.org> Mail-Followup-To: Nicolas Dichtel , sohny thomas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, davem@davemloft.net, kumuda , netdev References: <52CFE594.8010808@gmail.com> <52D020C4.30105@6wind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <52D020C4.30105@6wind.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 05:33:08PM +0100, Nicolas Dichtel wrote: > CC: netdev > > Le 10/01/2014 13:20, sohny thomas a écrit : > >Default route for link local address is configured automatically if > >NETWORKING_IPV6=yes is in ifcfg-eth*. > >When the route table for the interface is flushed and a new address is > >added to > >the same device with out removing linklocal addr, default route for link > >local > >address has to added by default. > I would say that removing the link local route but not the link local > address > is a configuration problem. > If you remove a connected route but not the associated address, you will > have > the same problem. We have some user accessible routes that are essential for IPv6 stack to work at all. So I don't know if I can agree with that. Maybe flush is a bit too aggressive?