IPv6 routing help?

[Ivan Voras]

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?

> Try to ping6 www.freebsd.org from the router itself. If that works, the
> issue is most certainly the router. If this is the case, hopefully
> someone with more 6to4 experience can explain why your router is not
> doing the expected thing.

IPv6 from and to the "router" (it's actually an ordinary machine doing
lots of stuff) works for all purposes.

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