Re: Is there a way to stop ipv6 leakage without turning off ipv6?

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On 04/10/17 06:39, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 04/10/17 05:33, Stephen Morris wrote:
>> Thanks Rick, am I correct in understanding that you are saying that
>> even though I have IPv6 set to link-local, that IPv6 is still being
>> attempted across the internet gateway, and in my case because my ISP
>> doesn't support IPv6, I am assuming those packets would be rejected
>> and hence the system would fall back to IPv4, or is it the case that
>> IPv6 is tried for every transmission, which would then make internet
>> access horribly inefficient? 
>
> No.  The link-local addresses are not route-able.  They cannot traverse
> routers.  Any DNS response with a IPv6 address will not be utilized. 
> So, you wouldn't get any IPv6 traffic attempting to go out the WAN path.
>

To further illustrate....

With full IPv6 available this is the routing table.

Kernel IPv6 routing table
Destination                    Next Hop                   Flag Met Ref
Use If
2001:470:d:6bd::/64            ::                         U    100 0    
0 enp0s3
fe80::ae22:bff:fed1:5d70/128   ::                         U    100 0    
0 enp0s3
fe80::/64                      ::                         U    256 0    
1 enp0s3
::/0                           fe80::ae22:bff:fed1:5d70   UG   100 0    
0 enp0s3
::/0                           ::                         !n   -1  1
14269 lo
::1/128                        ::                         Un   0   2   
17 lo
2001:470:d:6bd:8800:f914:12ee:a343/128 ::                         Un  
0   1     9 lo
fe80::5a1c:5ee4:bc16:2b7d/128  ::                         Un   0   2   
10 lo
ff00::/8                       ::                         U    256 1   
22 enp0s3
::/0                           ::                         !n   -1  1
14269 lo


Notice the ::/0 with a nexthop address?  That is the default route for
IPv6 traffic.

With link-local...

Kernel IPv6 routing table
Destination                    Next Hop                   Flag Met Ref
Use If
fe80::/64                      ::                         U    256 0    
4 enp0s3
::/0                           ::                         !n   -1  1
14226 lo
::1/128                        ::                         Un   0   2   
17 lo
fe80::5a1c:5ee4:bc16:2b7d/128  ::                         Un   0   1   
12 lo
ff00::/8                       ::                         U    256 1   
22 enp0s3
::/0                           ::                         !n   -1  1
14226 lo

No default route....


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