Hi,
I have a case wherein I have a route to a network connected to my
linux machine via an interface, which I added like-
route add -inet6 9aa::/16 gw 2001:db8:0:242::2 dev eth0
Now, when I send packets to ipv6 addresses in this network, from my
linux server, I see kernel adding routes for each of these addresses.
Is this behaviour correct. How can it be avoided?
My problem starts when I have millions of addresses in this network
that I am trying to reach.
A look of my routing table shows-
9aa:0:0:250::/128 2001:db8:0:242::2
UGC 0 23 0 eth0
9aa:0:0:251::/128 2001:db8:0:242::2
UGC 0 23 0 eth0
9aa:0:0:252::/128 2001:db8:0:242::2
UGC 0 23 0 eth0
9aa:0:0:253::/128 2001:db8:0:242::2
UGC 0 23 0 eth0
9aa:0:0:254::/128 2001:db8:0:242::2
UGC 0 23 0 eth0
9aa:0:0:255::/128 2001:db8:0:242::2
UGC 0 23 0 eth0
9aa:0:0:256::/128 2001:db8:0:242::2
UGC 0 23 0 eth0
9aa:0:0:257::/128 2001:db8:0:242::2
UGC 0 23 0 eth0
9aa:0:0:258::/128 2001:db8:0:242::2
UGC 0 23 0 eth0
9aa:0:0:259::/128 2001:db8:0:242::2
UGC 0 23 0 eth0
9aa:0:0:25a::/128 2001:db8:0:242::2
UGC 0 23 0 eth0
9aa:0:0:25b::/128 2001:db8:0:242::2
UGC 0 23 0 eth0
9aa:0:0:25c::/128 2001:db8:0:242::2
UGC 0 23 0 eth0
like this I get 10k routes
#cat /proc/net/ipv6_route | wc -l
10015
Any help is highly appreciated.
thanks,
Prashant
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