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Subject: Re: ipv6 host routes
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At Sun, 3 Sep 2006 15:22:14 +0200,
John Hay wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does anybody know how to add a direct IPv6 host route that actually works?
> What I mean is not through a gateway, but for one directly reachable.
> 
> I know it normally isn't needed because it will just work, but I'm
> trying to add FreeBSD IPv6 capability to net/olsrd. It looks like I have
> most of the rest working, but this is one of the last things tripping
> me up.
> 
> I have played for most of the morning with various incantations of
> "route add -inet6 -host ..." and just get various non working
> routes.  For my test I have the machines configured on the same IPv6
> subnet and without adding anything special I can ping them, but not
> after adding a route.
> 
> The reason they (the olsr guys) do it is so that a router can have
> multiple WiFi interfaces all configured on the same subnet. Then
> when they get comms with a machine, they can add a route to it
> through that interface.
> 
> At the moment I'm not even at the point of trying to get multiple
> interfaces on the same subnet working, although I would like to
> do that in the future. It would help if you have a high-site with
> multiple antennas and radios.
> 
> So anybody that know how to add a direct IPv6 host route on FreeBSD?
> 

Can you show us the commands, network layout and the output of netstat
-r and ndp -a?

Best,
George