New F11 "Compat" and "Unknown" scope addresses on tun6to4?

Allen Kistler an037-ooai8 at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 6 08:40:41 UTC 2009


I've set up a virtual test box with two NICs, one to be Internet facing 
(simulated, eth1 below) and one intranet facing (eth0 below).  I 
configured 6to4 to tunnel IPv6 traffic through an IPv4-only test ISP.

The tun6to4 setup provided by scripts in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts 
is adding IPv4-compatible IPv6 addresses for all the IPv4 addresses to 
the tunnel.

Here's the (truncated for brevity) ifconfig output.

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:8C:47:72
           inet addr:172.16.9.7  Bcast:172.16.9.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           inet6 addr: 2002:101:102:1:20c:29ff:fe8c:4772/16 Scope:Global
           inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe8c:4772/64 Scope:Link

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:8C:47:7C
           inet addr:1.1.1.2  Bcast:1.1.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe8c:477c/64 Scope:Link

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

tun6to4   Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
           inet6 addr: 2002:101:102::1/16 Scope:Global
           inet6 addr: ::1.1.1.2/96 Scope:Compat
           inet6 addr: ::172.16.9.7/96 Scope:Compat
           inet6 addr: ::127.0.0.1/96 Scope:Unknown

What's up with the Compat and Unknown scope addresses?  Generally 
speaking, they shouldn't be there.  Absolutely the loopback and RFC1918 
addresses shouldn't be there.  For reference, nothing other than the 
6to4 address (2002::/16) is there in F9 and RHEL5.  (I haven't used F10, 
so I can't comment on it.)  Did somebody (would somebody) actually 
*want* the current F11 behavior, or is it a bug?  I'm inclined to think 
"bug," but I figured I'd ask before I BZ it.

Perspective?  Knowledge?  Anyone?




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