Hello,
I don't think that this configuration is unnecessary. There are cases where
you would want to add an additional loopback IP such as this sort of setup
(neither of these work BTW).
1) This won't work because I don't think loopback mode interfaces allow address
and netmask arguments:
iface lo inet6 loopback
address 2001:db8::1
netmask 0
2) This won't work because of this bug which prevents successful
initialization:
iface lo inet6 loopback
post-up ip -6 addr add 2001:db8::1/0 dev $IFACE
pre-down ip -6 addr flush dev $IFACE scope global
3) This won't work because it will try to call sysctl's on the virtual ifname,
which will fail:
iface lo:1 inet6 static
address 2001:db8::1
netmask 0
$ sudo ifup -v lo:1
Configuring interface lo:1=lo:1 (inet6)
run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-pre-up.d
run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools
run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant
modprobe -q net-pf-10 > /dev/null 2>&1 || true # ignore failure.
sysctl net.ipv6.conf.lo:1.autoconf=0
error: "net.ipv6.conf.lo:1.autoconf" is an unknown key
Failed to bring up lo:1.
Given every route seems blocked here, I could really benefit from a fix for
this bug.
Regards,
Matthew.
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