Static IPv6 fe80 route gets dormant

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 12:42:56PM +0000, Kenth Eriksson wrote:
> Why is the route fe80::7270:8bff:fee8:8081 considered dormant? OSPF and
> static routes have different administrative distance and the static
> route has lower AD (higher bird preference).

Perhaps you do not have defined iface for link-local route? We should
check for that and rejectlink-local routes without specified iface
immediately. With iface, it works for me:

bird> show static static6
::/0
    via fe80::7270:8bff:fee8:8081%ve0

> # birdc
> BIRD v2.0.7-11-g4f6e7456 ready.
> ...
> bird> show static
> ::/0
> 	via fe80::7270:8bff:fee8:8081 (dormant)

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