From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 Description of problem: When I try to set up a route for ipv6 on an Interface which has global scope ipv6 adress with prefix 127, i get the answer: RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument Either, if i use 'ip route add 2001:7a0:100:1a3::/64 via 2001:7a0:100:1a0:1000::0 dev eth0' or 'route -A inet6 add 2001:7a0:100:1a3::/64 gw 2001:7a0:100:1a0:1000::0' If i use the an interface with /64 and a global scope address next hop in that network: no problems; if i use the link local address of the next hop and the interface, the route works (workaround) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.20-19.9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Set up an interface with global scope IPv6 address with /127 2.ip route add <ipv6 address/prefix> via <global scope ipv6 address/127> dev <interface> Actual Results: RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument no new route is in the routing table Expected Results: a new ipv6 route in the routing table, no error messages Additional info:
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