Re: default ipv6 route?

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Apr 27,  7:16am, mellon%fugue.com@localhost (Ted Lemon) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: default ipv6 route?

| On Apr 24, 2015, at 9:55 AM, Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:
| > One of my ISProviders is TWC. If you don't use DHCPv6, what you
| > end up is the link-local address for each interface (which you get
| > anyway), and a default route to the link-local address of the TWC
| > router (through RA's), which is not useful if you don't have a real
| > IPv6 address on any of your interfaces.
| >=20
| > This made things work very slowly, because everything tried IPv6
| > first because of the default route (until it timed-out).
| 
| Shouldn't the link-local address fail source address selection?   It might =
| be interesting to try to figure out exactly how this is happening.   It see=
| ms like a fail to try to use an IPv6 default route when you have no valid s=
| ource address candidates.

Perhaps that's a good idea, and I think other OS's do that.
I've added debugging and it is easy enough to reproduce it...

christos