From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa Subject: Re: [BUG] Any-IP IPv6 support broken Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 20:09:42 +0100 Message-ID: <1446145782.493380.423921913.1E80CAD4@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <0977189F-9778-4D1C-939D-FAD71595E5F6@gmail.com> <1446143957.486796.423892137.12302CDB@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Gilberto Bertin Return-path: Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:41970 "EHLO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757264AbbJ2TJn convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:09:43 -0400 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2EF62067F for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:09:42 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Oct 29, 2015, at 19:58, Gilberto Bertin wrote: >=20 > > On 29 Oct 2015, at 18:39, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > >=20 > > Try the loopback interface: > >=20 > > ip -6 route add local abcd:abcd:abcd:abcd::/64 dev *lo* > >=20 > > Otherwise packets should end up in neighbor subsystem and you don't= want > > that, still. ;) > >=20 >=20 > Thanks for the reply. >=20 > I know it=E2=80=99s working on the lo interface, but unluckily I need= it on > other interfaces (and aliasing lo is not an option). >=20 > Moreover: > - the IPv6 patch explicitly refers to the possibility to do this with > eth0 interface (i.e. it's not a lo-only feature) > - should it be consistent with the IPv4 behaviour? (or maybe it's not > supposed to work even with IPv4 addresses, and so this is a bug) The routing commands won't automatically enable the ndisc layer to answer neighbour discovery requests for that. The rule thing should wor= k but your clients somehow need to route all packets over the box with th= e "anyip" route setup. Bye, Hannes