Subject: Re: IPv6 nd6_lookup: failed to add route...
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Atsushi Onoe <onoe@sm.sony.co.jp>
List: current-users
Date: 10/06/2000 21:04:59
> from IPv6 specification, you must not do this. under IPv6,
> the nexthop address has to be link-local address (starting from
> "fe80").
What specification should we refer?
Only I can find is RFC2461 (Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)),
but I don't think the description about link-local address applies to host.
Atsushi Onoe
| 8. REDIRECT FUNCTION
|
| This section describes the functions related to the sending and
| processing of Redirect messages.
|
| Redirect messages are sent by routers to redirect a host to a better
| first-hop router for a specific destination or to inform hosts that a
| destination is in fact a neighbor (i.e., on-link). The latter is
| accomplished by having the ICMP Target Address be equal to the ICMP
| Destination Address.
|
| A router MUST be able to determine the link-local address for each of
| its neighboring routers in order to ensure that the target address in
| a Redirect message identifies the neighbor router by its link-local
| address. For static routing this requirement implies that the next-
| hop router's address should be specified using the link-local address
| of the router. For dynamic routing this requirement implies that all
| IPv6 routing protocols must somehow exchange the link-local addresses
| of neighboring routers.