From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stuart Sheldon Subject: Re: IPv6 Anycast? Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:40:01 -0700 Message-ID: <4C4E00B1.1030300@actusa.net> References: <4C48B90B.60304@actusa.net> <4C491AD4.9070103@actusa.net> <4C49B163.8090400@actusa.net> <4C49C352.6010701@astaro.com> <4C49C92D.30705@actusa.net> <20100726084418.GA14903@verge.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ulrich Weber , Mikael Abrahamsson , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Stuart Sheldon To: Simon Horman Return-path: Received: from internal.actusa.net ([208.83.100.16]:34201 "EHLO internal.actusa.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754848Ab0GZVkU (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:40:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100726084418.GA14903@verge.net.au> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi Simon, I found the ip man entry too... It appears that the code is in the kernel, as it does automatically add the anycast addresses when you start IPv6 routing... Is this something I should file as a bug / feature request? I would think this should be part of the iproute2 stuff, but LARTC seems to have fallen off the planet. I'm an Administrator not really a programmer, and this seems way beyond my hacking to get done. Not really sure where to go from here... Does anyone out there have any suggestions??? Thanks in advance... Stu Simon Horman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 09:54:05AM -0700, Stuart Sheldon wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> Hi Ulrich, >> >> Thanks, that resolves half the issue. So as of right now, there is no >> userspace program to add anycast addresses? > > I was hoping to have some useful information, but alas I failed on that count. > > Looking at ip(8) it seems that the following ought to work: > > ip addr add fd16:a2f5:c4d7::7/48 anycast fd16:a2f5:c4d7::8 dev eth0 > > However, it seems not to, and then I found this in the manpage :-( > > anycast - not implemented the destinations are anycast > addresses assigned to this host. They are mainly equivalent to > local with one difference: such addresses are invalid when used as > the source address of any packet. > - -- Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours. The searchers all say that they'd have made White Fish Bay if they'd put fifteen more miles behind her. -- Gordon Lightfoot "The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald Lyrics" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJMTgCxAAoJEFKVLITDJSGSuYMQAKEu/uogchQpUhtHgsYUtDfl AJbSo+dLJMKnucb5j8p1+bVM32DFwAP3xC7PuFi3apQywwQljjHJSti4E2oQlM5T GBkCD6+CJS15sg6HG7mJNcBceLhOYlGhRGIA6AXM+O9hGKnQAcW3i/A9gQvhj1oQ gcC94gjJTf0Fk+/jvqpZs20+jTkM6mhtOHG93dCLmKnKDKpTpJjgjWXcBqinYGft +jJZ8WZwAHWKd5hlzkcfK8+b7TlifNq+3ymfeJt/aZHynu7tiGUTLRTWddC3wcSj QMjQkT/w49BeZd4LPOvuXRIoH7cy4Tr5gc6HP5o9b3j5VSlbZMhaRP2l/iLncp3v LB0lsENDPRz2VT4eS/yJCDs7JUqg0yCeCk33qkoN0lFqau6AWbDeDuaX2wwyolY+ 23sezJXolk0iZXGSK7XRfdhnfW1xTmPH/7QR0oPkKt1l+sSUcoIEzkXkTXD1VpRm L6uga2GP7JPjOHKBpgDR97FFjsMRQqin7fPp36pLWY2risb1dXNUYcKp9bzFdGtm u8R2j4g5WS5uGgwE08DSN/bQasBP6QaqD2GPH7GTYsDjiDwvk1UKKEPMYybryWGQ sFn4+gB2n/Z7oNT+6Y+VrcnFV6BFSzrsi2DmUxRWuGMEHjKjm6wfpGoBa0WT9esL Tz1B5/1tbsCtvGQ2ZwXI =jGSQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----