Good evening, I'm a student trying to implemente a Mobile IPv6 scenario with static routes. I'm using Fedora Core 3, with the kernel 2.6.11 patched with mipv6-2.0-rc3-linux-2.6.11.patch (only for kernel 2.6.11)(avaible at http://www.mobile-ipv6.org/software/). The iproute version is iproute-2.6.9-3. I've some problems with ip route so i used a simple scenario for tests. Scenario: (a::/64)---host1<--(b::/64)-->host2---(c::/64) [eth0(a::1/64)-eth2(b::1/64)]<--->[eth1(b::2/64)-eth0(c::2)] when i tried to insert routes: [root@localhost ~]# ip -6 route add c::2/64 via b::2 dev eth2 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument [root@localhost ~]# route -A inet6 add c::2/64 gw b::2 dev eth2 SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument [root@localhost ~]# ip -6 route add c::2/64 dev eth2 -->this doesn't work I configured the scenario sucessfuly at a few moments, but using global address with the prefix 2000::, or site local with prefix fec0::. Using the scenario with site local address: ip -6 route add ::/0 via fec0:b::1 #Works!! route -A inet6 add ::/0 gw fec0:b::1 #Also Works!! Using the scenario with global address: ip -6 route add ::/0 via 2000:b::1 #Works!! route -A inet6 add ::/0 gw 2000:b::1 #Also Works!! My question now is that a::1 is also global address, and i configure the interface address with sucess("ip -6 addr add a::1/64 dev eth0"), so why can't i configure also a route ("ip -6 route add ::/0 via b::2")?? Is that a bug?? Or is it because these addresses are reserved (not allocated)??? Following are shown the routing table of the first scenario [root@localhost ~]# route -A inet6 -n Kernel IPv6 routing table Destination Next Hop Flags Metric Ref Use Iface a::/64 :: U 256 0 0 eth0 b::/64 :: U 256 0 0 eth2 c::/64 :: U 1024 0 0 eth2 fe80::/64 :: U 256 0 0 eth1 fe80::/64 :: U 256 0 0 eth0 fe80::/64 :: U 256 0 0 eth2 ff00::/8 :: U 256 0 0 eth2 ff00::/8 :: U 256 0 0 eth1 ff00::/8 :: U 256 0 0 eth0 ff00::/8 :: U 256 0 0 eth2 ::/0 :: U 1 0 0 eth2 ::1/128 :: U 0 34 2 lo a::/128 :: U 0 3 2 lo a::1/128 :: U 0 1 2 lo b::/128 :: U 0 3 2 lo b::1/128 :: U 0 31 2 lo fe80::/128 :: U 0 0 2 lo fe80::/128 :: U 0 0 2 lo fe80::/128 :: U 0 0 2 lo fe80::201:2ff:fea4:23a7/128 :: U 0 0 2 lo fe80::211:11ff:fe1c:6653/128 :: U 0 0 2 lo fe80::230:4fff:fe02:bdeb/128 :: U 0 8 2 lo [root@localhost ~]# Hope you can help me, thanks, Tiago. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
