Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> writes: > Bjørn Mork, le mar. 12 juin 2018 13:30:39 +0200, a ecrit: >> But this will: >> >> frtest3:~# ip route add 2001:db8:f00::1/128 dev eth1 > > So this is a route, which can be checked for.
No, it is a route you can safely add. Checking for it is no point. It does not have to exist prior to adding the gateway. >> > which is the point of the test AIUI. >> >> The test is pointless. There is absolutely no requirement that the >> gateway should be part of any larger on-link prefix or related to any of >> the configured host addresses in any way. > > Please scratch from your mind whatever you thought I meant. > > What I meant is that a route is needed for that. That is what we can > really check for to provide useful feedback to a user making a typo, > before trying to reach something on the Internet that might just be > randomly off. Noe, you can't check this. It makes no sense. But I think we are running in circles now. let's just flag the Debian IPv6 implementation as broken on this point and move on. Bjør
