What startup script is supposed to handle ipv6_defaultrouter="..."?

Wolfgang Zenker wolfgang at lyxys.ka.sub.org
Thu Feb 26 06:18:01 PST 2009


Hi,

* Trond Endrestøl <Trond.Endrestol at fagskolen.gjovik.no> [090226 13:19]:
> Sorry about the noise.

> Maybe I wasn't too patient, but I will swear that netstat -rnf inet6 
> showed no default route even when it was supposed to. And yes, I did 
> reboot the system to verify my settings.

> Again, my bad.

I have the problem sometimes that the system tries to get IPv6 router
advertisments before the interface is up. In this case it doesn't retry,
at least not within the time frame I was patient enough to wait.
In this case I usually call rtsol by hand to get the parameters.

Wolfgang


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