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Date:      Tue, 30 Sep 2003 02:22:57 +0900
From:      JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>
To:        Juan Rodriguez Hervella <jrh@it.uc3m.es>
Cc:        snap-users@kame.net
Subject:   Re: IPv6 autoconfiguration on a multihomed site
Message-ID:  <y7vr81za4r2.wl@ocean.jinmei.org>
In-Reply-To: <200309291859.09355.jrh@it.uc3m.es>
References:  <200309291859.09355.jrh@it.uc3m.es>

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>>>>> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:59:08 +0200, 
>>>>> Juan Rodriguez Hervella <jrh@it.uc3m.es> said:

> I've got two routers sending RAs on the same link, so the
> host is configured with two IPv6 prefix on the same NIC.

> Watching the routing table I only see one default IPv6 route.

> When I try to ping the global IPv6 address of one router, if
> I'm lucky and the router is the same router which I've got
> installed on the default route, it will answer.

> The problem is that the host doesn't seem to realize that
> it is on two links at the same time, so it always sends packets to the
> default router....

> For example, if there's only one RA, the autoconfiguration process
> ends up with a link-route like this:

> 2001:720:410:1001::/64            link#2                        UC        fxp0

> On the other hand, when there are 2 RAs on the same link, this
> route doesn't exist !

I don't quite understand the situation...could you depict the network
configuration with concrete prefixes/addresses, and describe the
concrete problem (if it's a problem) with exact output of some
commands (such as netstat, ifconfig, etc)?

Thanks,

					JINMEI, Tatuya
					Communication Platform Lab.
					Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
					jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp



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