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Date:      Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:19:55 +0000
From:      Matt Smith <matt.xtaz@gmail.com>
To:        "J. Hellenthal" <jhell@dataix.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPv6 policy based source routing
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On 22 March 2011 03:00, J. Hellenthal <jhell@dataix.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Matt,
>
> Unofficially not sure if you have already checked into this so I am not s=
ure if it is really a solution to your problem but may be a step forward. C=
heck out the man page for ip6addrctl(8) that allows you to set a precedence=
 for each prefix/route. The default output of ip6addrctl(8) can be dumped i=
nto /etc/ip6addrctl.conf where it will also be parsed and restored upon reb=
oot.
>

This does indeed look like exactly what I was after however I can't
seem to get it to do anything unless I'm using it wrong.

root@tao[~]# ip6addrctl show
Prefix                          Prec Label      Use
::1/128                           50     0        0
::/0                              40     1   155126
2002::/16                         30     2        0
::/96                             20     3        0
::ffff:0.0.0.0/96                 10     4        0

The IP on vr0 is 2a01:348:294::1/64 and the IP on gif0 is
2a01:348:6:45c::2/128. Right now if I ping6 ipv6.google.com I get this
PING6(56=3D40+8+8 bytes) 2a01:348:6:45c::2 --> 2a00:1450:8002::67 so
it's sourcing traffic from the gif0 IP. I assume in that list the
higher the precedence the higher the priority so I ran "ip6addrctl add
2a01:348:294::/64 45 5". This makes no difference. Traffic still comes
from the gif0 IP.

I also tried adding the gif0 prefix with "ip6addrctl add
2a01:348:6:45c::2/128 44 6" to make it lower but same effect. In case
I got the precedence the wrong way round I tried reversing it. Same
effect.

So I guess I'm not using it correctly. Can you enlighten me as to what
I'm doing wrong with it?

Matt.



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