(usagi-users 02653) Re: Problems with Routing

[Jedediah Ferguson <jed@xxxxxxxx>]

What would be a more appropriate address selection?

Jed


On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 13:34, Yang Hsiung wrote:
> I wonder that the "fe8x/10" are all dropped in the link-local
> addresses, which are NOT routable.
> 
> Yang
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jedediah Ferguson [mailto:jed@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 7:21 AM
> To: usagi-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: (usagi-users 02651) Problems with Routing
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> Hello Users Group:
> 
> I have configured a Usagi modified kernel from the last stable source
> release (February 14, 2003).  I can't get any IPv6 forwarding to occur. 
> The routes are configured on the host machines and the router machine
> has IPV6FORWARDING=yes in /etc/sysconfig/network.  Monitoring with
> Ethereal I can see traffic directed toward the router destined for
> machines on either side but the router simply is not fowarding the
> traffic.
> 
> Low Quality Network Schematic
> 	Subnet			Subnet
> 	fe82::/64		fe81::/64
> Host1 ----------  Router  ------------- Host2
> 
> Host1 : fe82::2/64
> Host2 : fe81::1/64
> 
> Router: fe81::3/64
> 	fe82::4/64
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> /etc/sysconfig/network
> 
> NETWORKING=yes
> NETWORKING_IPV6=yes
> IPV6INIT=yes
> IPV6FORWARDING=yes
> HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
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> Routing Table
> 
> fe80::/64 dev eth0  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1500 advmss 1440
> fe80::/64 dev eth1  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1500 advmss 1440
> fe80::/64 dev eth2  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1500 advmss 1440
> fe81::/64 dev eth1  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1500 advmss 1440
> fe82::/64 dev eth2  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1500 advmss 1440
> ff00::/8 dev eth0  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1500 advmss 1440
> ff00::/8 dev eth1  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1500 advmss 1440
> ff00::/8 dev eth2  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1500 advmss 1440
> default dev eth1  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1500 advmss 1440
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> Neighbour Table
> 
> fe81::1 dev eth1 lladdr 00:05:5d:2d:1f:72 nud stale
> fe82::2 dev eth2 lladdr 00:0c:42:02:02:58 nud stale
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> I am convinced there is something simple I have not done.  The tutorials
> I have read indicate that is the routes are present and forwarding is
> enabled this should work.
> 
> Any assistance would be much appreciated.
> 
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> Thanks,
> 
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> Jedediah Ferguson
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