IPv6 routing help?

[Ivan Voras]

Steve Bertrand wrote:
> Ivan Voras wrote:
>> Steve Bertrand wrote:
>>> Ivan Voras wrote:
>>>
>>>> As far as I understand ipv6 (very little), this basically says the
>>>> router told the client it can't send packets to outside addresses with
>>>> source addresses that are link-local. Is this correct?
>>> I don't know much about 6to4. All of my IPv6 is native, but what you are
>>> saying appears correct.
>>>
>>> It is almost like a translation at the router should be happening, but
>>> it is not.
>> Yes.
>>
>>>> However, adding an ipv6 address to the client, in this case
>>>> 2002:xxyy:xxyy::10/64 doesn't help and breaks even pinging the router's
>>>> external address. It looks to me like I'm missing something important in
>>>> the relation between the link-local and the global addresses, but what?
>>> In this case, you are implementing the same IP prefix on both sides of
>>> the router, which won't work.
>> I don't follow you - is something significantly different than ipv4?
> 
> Err, no. IPv4 and IPv6 are systematically the same.
> 
> You stated in the original post that you have, on the router, as its
> 'outside' address:
> 
> 2002:xxyy:xxyy::1
> 
> Then, in a subsequent post, you stated that you assigned:
> 
> 2002:xxyy:xxyy::10 to the client, which I expect is attached to the
> *inside* interface on the router.

Yes, I managed to get confused by the link-local address again. You're
right.

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