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Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway
From: Mohacsi Janos <mohacsi () niif hu>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:50:36 +0100 (CET)
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012, Mathias Wolkert wrote:
Hi On 1/25/12 23:53 , Owen DeLong wrote: [...]Note, you can use RA for default gateway while still using static addressing.Could you give me a little bit more on this? It seems to me that most platforms stop listening to RAs once you give them a static address.
Static address + RA working on FreeBSD and Linux. Sorry we don't have other servers, where we are using statically configured IPv6 addresses.
Letting a host run slaac and then add a static address is not good enough as the slaac address might be chosen for locally generated packets.
Define for every application your bind address - locally generated packets will use it. If it is not possible Use RFC 3484 source address selection for selecting static source addresses.
If it works with listening on RAs when running with statically configured address, why HSRP/VRRP?
Statically configured default gateways worked for us with VRRP/HSRP. VRRP/HSRP is for first-hop redundancy.
Best Regards, Janos Mohacsi
Current thread:
- Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Daniel STICKNEY (Jan 25)
- RE: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Matthew Huff (Jan 25)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Leo Bicknell (Jan 25)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Ray Soucy (Jan 25)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Owen DeLong (Jan 25)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Owen DeLong (Jan 25)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Leo Bicknell (Jan 25)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Ray Soucy (Jan 25)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Dale W. Carder (Jan 25)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Owen DeLong (Jan 25)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Mathias Wolkert (Jan 26)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Mohacsi Janos (Jan 26)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Owen DeLong (Jan 26)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Jeff Hartley (Jan 26)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Sander Steffann (Jan 27)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Mathias Wolkert (Jan 26)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway TJ (Jan 26)
- Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway Daniel STICKNEY (Jan 26)