Static IPv6 fe80 route gets dormant

Kenth Eriksson Kenth.Eriksson at infinera.com
Fri Jun 12 20:33:54 CEST 2020


On Fri, 2020-06-12 at 16:01 +0200, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 12:42:56PM +0000, Kenth Eriksson wrote:
> > Why is the route fe80::7270:8bff:fee8:8081 considered dormant? OSPF and
> > static routes have different administrative distance and the static
> > route has lower AD (higher bird preference).
> 
> Perhaps you do not have defined iface for link-local route? We should
> check for that and rejectlink-local routes without specified iface
> immediately. With iface, it works for me:
> 
Yes static route was given as an immediate nexthop gateway ip. Why is
it not possible to resolve the outgoing interface for that case?
Neighbor table?   




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