OSPFv3 doesn't announce loopback IPv6 network
Bernhard Ehlers
bird at b-ehlers.de
Sun Dec 11 19:12:30 CET 2022
Am 11.12.22 um 18:50 schrieb Ondrej Zajicek:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 06:30:46PM +0100, Bernhard Ehlers via Bird-users wrote:
>> I want to use OSPF with BIRD v2.0.10 on Linux.
>>
>> That works well, except that the IPv6 network of the lo interface isn't
>> announced on OSPFv3. The IPv6 networks of the ethernet interfaces are
>> announced as well as the IPv4 networks of all interfaces (ethernet and lo).
>> The only missing is the IPv6 network of lo.
>
> Hi
>
> Due to some implementation details, OSPFv3 ignores interfaces that do not
> have link-local addresses (even if they are just stub). Just use:
>
> ip address add fe80::1/128 dev lo
>
Thanks a lot, that works!!!
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