IPv6 addresses and unwanted routing entries

[Richard Achmatowicz]

Thanks, Chuck. That will help me to eliminate at least some of the 
problems i'm having.

Richard

Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 01:46:42PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
>   
>>> 3ffe:ffff:100:f101::/64 dev eth0 metric 256 mtu 1500 advmss 1440  
>>> hoplimit 4294967295
>>> unreachable 3ffe:ffff::/32 dev lo metric 1024 error -101 mtu 16436  
>>> advmss 16376 hoplimit 4294967295
>>>       
>
> 3ffe::/16 is phased out as of June 6, 2006:
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3701
>
> Additionally, 3ffe:ffff::/32 was a "documentation prefix" to be used 
> in documentation examples, and hence never used on actual networks.  
> Linux is enforcing that with the unreachable route.  Unfortunately, 
> all I can find about this is an old expired IETF draft from 2001:
>
> http://www.hexago.com/4105/file.asp?file_id=421
> http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/6bone/2001-June/004262.html
>
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