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Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway
From: TJ <trejrco () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:57:13 -0500
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 04:16, Mathias Wolkert <tias () netnod se> wrote:
Note, you can use RA for default gateway while still using staticaddressing. Could you give me a little bit more on this?
Easy: have the RAs sent w/ a prefix information option included, but w/o the A bit being set.
It seems to me that most platforms stop listening to RAs once you give them a static address.
That is (IMHO) a broken implementation. A static address, or even a statically configured default gateway, should not prevent RAs from being processed. /TJ
Current thread:
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway, (continued)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Owen DeLong (Jan 25)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Owen DeLong (Jan 25)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Leo Bicknell (Jan 25)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Dale W. Carder (Jan 25)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Owen DeLong (Jan 25)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Mathias Wolkert (Jan 26)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Mohacsi Janos (Jan 26)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Owen DeLong (Jan 26)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Jeff Hartley (Jan 26)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Sander Steffann (Jan 27)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Mathias Wolkert (Jan 26)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway TJ (Jan 26)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Daniel STICKNEY (Jan 26)