Re: default ipv6 route?

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 27/04/2015 12:16, Ted Lemon wrote:
> 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.
>> 
>> 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 seems like a fail to try to use an IPv6 default route
> when you have no valid source address candidates.
> 

This is a good idea and would also fix a similar issue I reported here:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-net/2015/04/02/msg005025.html

Roy