Icmp access lists on dhcp-pd deployments

[Jens Link]

Seth Mos <seth.mos at dds.nl> writes:

> What I'm seeing is that ICMP6 (echo) is allowed to the internet but I
> can't actually ping the link-local address of the default gateway.

You did specify the outgoing interface? Or do you mean there is a filter
on the provider side?

Here (Linux as Host and a Fritzbox as default gateway):

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jens at pc8:~$ ip -6 route show | grep default
default via fe80::be05:43ff:fea8:85ea dev eth0  proto kernel  metric
1024  expires 1695sec mtu 1280 hoplimit 255
jens at pc8:~$ ping6 -I eth0 fe80::be05:43ff:fea8:85ea
PING fe80::be05:43ff:fea8:85ea(fe80::be05:43ff:fea8:85ea) from
fe80::3e4a:92ff:fe74:4a7a eth0: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from fe80::be05:43ff:fea8:85ea: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.409 ms
----

Jens
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