dhcpcd-discuss

Re: ipv6 default gw

Roy Marples

Fri May 06 16:30:42 2016

On 06/05/2016 15:21, Bernd May wrote:
> On 05.05.2016 22:21, Matěj Grégr wrote:
>> Hello,
>>   does dhcpcd support more ipv6 default gw? I receive Router
>> Advertisement messages from two routers, but only one is added as a
>> default gateway. The other RA is ignored.
> 
> You could potentially do this yourself though, by hooking into the
> appropriate ROUTERADVERT event. If you can create route policies e.g.
> via 'iproute rule' you could even add source route policies to divert
> traffic for prefixes to their respective announced routers. You would
> probably have to handle all kinds of route maintenance too, e.g. removal
> on prefix, route, router expiration, refresh.
> 
> Be aware though that dhcpcd maintains its own list of possible default
> routes in case the entry for the currently configured one expires.

But why would you want to do this anyway?

Roy

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