[ds6] Re: IPv6 with no routers advertising

[[JOIN] Andre Stolze]

Hi,

given that I understand your question correctly. I assume that you missed 
to tell ping6 which interface to use.
Try to ping using:
ping6 -I eth0 fe80:xyz

regards
André

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--On Donnerstag, 21. April 2005 08:32 -0400 "Bellino, Phil" 
<pbellino at mrv.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> Running 2.6.11 on a PowerPc platforms with no routers and no routers
> advertising.
> At boot time, eth0 has its Link-Local address
> (fe80::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/64) on all units.
>
> The output from an "ip -6 route show" on all units is:
>
> fe80::/64 dev eth0  metric 256  mtu 1500 advmss 1440 metric 10 64
> ff00::/8 dev eth0  metric 256  mtu 1500 advmss 1440 metric 10 1
> unreachable default dev lo  proto none  metric -1  error -101 metric 10
> 255
>
> I can not ping back and forth with these units.
>
> I now turn on radvd on a Linux server, which is now advertising a
> 3ffe:303:11:2::/64 prefix.
> At this point the output of the "ip -6 route show" is:
>
> 3ffe:303:11:2::/64 dev eth0  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1500 advmss
> 1440 metric 10 64
> fe80::/64 dev eth0  metric 256  mtu 1500 advmss 1440 metric 10 64
> ff00::/8 dev eth0  metric 256  mtu 1500 advmss 1440 metric 10 1
> default via fe80::220:edff:febe:3caf dev eth0  proto kernel  metric 1024
> expires 26sec mtu 1500 advmss 1440 metric 10 64
> unreachable default dev lo  proto none  metric -1  error -101 metric 10
> 255
>
> I can now ping back and forth with the Link-Local addresses as well as the
> Link-Global addresses.
>
> So my question is:
> How can I achieve IPv6 communication using the Link-Local addresses
> without a router in place or a router advertising?
>
> Thanks,
> Phil Bellino
>
> ============================
> Phil Bellino
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> Boston Product Division
> 295 Foster St.
> Littleton,MA 01460
> Tel: (978)952-4807
> Email: pbellino at mrv.com
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