Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 22:24:53 +0100
From: Gert Doering <gert@...1296...>
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Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Stop complaining about IPv6 routes
 without gateway address.
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Hi,

On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 10:07:34PM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:
> The IPv6 routing code inherited assumptions and the message
>=20
>    "OpenVPN ROUTE6: OpenVPN needs a gateway parameter for a --route-ipv6
>     option and no default was specified by either --route-ipv6-gateway or
>     --ifconfig-ipv6 options"
>=20
> from the IPv4 routing code.
>=20
> This was never really correct, as no gateway is needed for "into tun
> device" IPv6 routes, and the "--route-ipv6-gateway" option it refers
> to also never existed.  (Routes on tap interfaces *do* need a gateway
> due to neighbour discovery being involved.  As do routes on Windows,
> but there we fake the gateway in tun mode anyway).

Mmmh, ditch this patch.

I've forgotten the patch from James Bekkema (which was sent in a weird
format so patchwork did not recognize it as such).  Both patches are
compatible, but my new message does not take this into account

v2 coming tomorrow.

gert
--=20
"If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you=20
 feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubte=
d=20
 it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor."
                             Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistre=
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert@...1296...

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