Linux and ULA support and default route

Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com
Sat Oct 15 00:43:48 CEST 2016


On 15/10/2016 00:57, Holger Zuleger wrote:
>> If the delegated prefix changes, you'll be simply postponing the local
>> communication failure, not prevent it.
> Only if the new prefix is different to the old one.
> 
>> The last year has convinced me that the best user experience is
>> achieved by having an in-home stable ULA prefix to complement the
>> ISP-delegated global prefix[es] [if any], and that all the internal
>> hostnames should resolve to the IPv6 addresses assigned from the ULA
>> prefix.
> Yes, but this is probably a bit different to the AVM behavior. I have in
> mind that the default configuration on Fritzboxes is to announce the ULA
> *only* if the upstream is down. 

Correct, there is an option to change that however.

   Brian

> Then your local active sessions breaks
> twice.




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