Default IPv6 route on debian squeeze does not come up after boot
- by Georg Bretschneider
I have a problem with my default IPv6 route not coming up after boot on a Debian Squeeze system.
This is my config (/etc/network/interfaces):
# Loopback device:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface lo inet6 loopback
# device: br0
auto br0
iface br0 inet static
bridge_ports eth0
bridge_fd 0
address 88.198.62.xx
broadcast 88.198.62.63
netmask 255.255.255.224
gateway 88.198.62.33
up route add -net 88.198.62.32 netmask 255.255.255.224 gw 88.198.62.33 br0
iface br0 inet6 static
address 2a01:4f8:131:10x::2
netmask 64
gateway 2a01:4f8:131:100::1
up route -A inet6 add 2a01:4f8:131:100::1/59 dev br0
My inet comes up alright, but I have to exec the route command manually after boot to make IPv6 work. Otherwise I can't even reach my gateway.
This is the output of ip -6 route show after boot:
2a01:4f8:131:10x::/64 dev br0 proto kernel metric 256 mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 4294967295
unreachable fe80::/64 dev lo proto kernel metric 256 error -101 mtu 16436 advmss 16376 hoplimit 4294967295
fe80::/64 dev br0 proto kernel metric 256 mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 4294967295
fe80::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256 mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 4294967295
I already tried it with:
up ip -6 route add 2a01:4f8:131:100::1 dev br0
up ip -6 route add default via 2a01:4f8:131:100::1 dev br0
in /etc/network/interfaces, but with the same results. If I execute those commands manually on my shell, everything starts working nicely. And yes, I tried with post-up instead of up, too.
Only other changes I made was to activate ip forwarding for IPv6, because I want to run some LXC containers on that system.
