dhcpcd-discuss

Default route for static IPv6 config

Shane Allgeier

Wed Jul 04 20:00:31 2018

So, I've had some trouble trying to get dhcpcd to create a default route
for my static IPv6 connection. I got this far:

interface eth0
> noipv6rs
> static ip6_address=dead:beef:deed:feed::2/64 # fake, but you get the idea
> static routers=dead:beef:deed:feed::1 # also fake
> static domain_name_servers=2001:4860::8888


When I run dhcpcd -d I get a message saying:

> `dead:beef:deed:feed::1' is not a valid IP address

... which says to me that it's parsing it as an IPv4 address no matter what.

By checking ip -6 route, I can see that dhcpcd properly created the one
route, but no default:

> dead:beef:deed:feed::/64 dev eth0 metric 202 pref medium
>

*So my question is*: how do I get dhcpcd to create a default IPv6 route for
me? Should I be using something other than the "routers" config option?

Thanks for your help.
-Shane

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