Linux and ULA support and default route

[Lorenzo Colitti]

Of note is the fact that the ULA prefix being announced is the ubiquitous
fd00::/64.

Great idea, ULAs.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 9:16 PM, Brian E Carpenter <
brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:

> This creates a tricky problem for homenet, I think, but I agree that my CE
> is doing what that requirement says. This also creates a truly annoying
> coding problem for me, which I won't go into here (except to gripe that
> Linux
> makes it very annoying indeed to discover your own global unicast address).
>
> Thanks
>    Brian
>
> On 13/10/2016 16:55, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
> > The linux host is correctly not adding a default route because the RA
> > specifies a router lifetime of 0, likely due to RFC 7084 requirement G-4.
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Brian E Carpenter <
> > brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I'll send you the RA packet off-list.
> >>
> >>     Brian
> >>
> >> On 13/10/2016 14:10, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> >>> On 13/10/2016 13:47, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
> >>>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Brian E Carpenter <
> >>>> brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> But what it says (before I install the correct default route) is
> >>>>>
> >>>>> fd00::/64 via fe80::be05:43ff:fe8e:ce39 dev wlp2s0  proto ra  metric
> >> 600
> >>>>> pref medium
> >>>>> fe80::/64 dev wlp2s0  proto kernel  metric 256  pref medium
> >>>>>
> >>>>> No default, as you can see.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Do you have a tcpdump of the RA?
> >>>
> >>> No. Any suggestions how I can catch one? Would a Wireshark capture be
> >> useful?
> >>>
> >>>     Brian
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
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