Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:04:44 +0900 From: gnn@freebsd.org To: John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipv6 host routes Message-ID: <m21wqsgzer.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> In-Reply-To: <20060903132214.GA40993@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> References: <20060903132214.GA40993@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za>
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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
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