Package: iproute Version: 20090324-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: ipv6 Given that IPv6 is becoming more and more ubiquitous (2.6.30 kernels in Debian have ipv6 compile in, it's no longer a module), it would make sense to unify the output of 'ip route' in similar ways as the output of 'ip address' already includes both address families.
A simple call to 'ip route' should include IPv6 routes, e.g. 2001:a60:f069::/64 dev wifi proto kernel metric 256 expires 2592088sec mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 0 fe80::/64 dev wifi proto kernel metric 256 mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 0 192.168.20.0/24 dev wifi proto kernel scope link src 192.168.20.102 default6 via fe80::204:75ff:fecf:3ff6 dev wifi proto kernel metric 1024 expires 1727sec mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 64 default via 192.168.20.1 dev wifi In general, there won't be overlaps, and IPv4 and IPv6 addresses/routes are sufficiently different. The only clash is with 'default', and I suggest that the IPv6 default route should be labelled 'default6'. If -4 or -6 are explicitly specified, the output should only contain those address families. But if neither is specified, the two should be merged. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages iproute depends on: ii libc6 2.9-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdb4.7 4.7.25-7 Berkeley v4.7 Database Libraries [ Versions of packages iproute recommends: ii libatm1 2.4.1-17.2 shared library for ATM (Asynchrono Versions of packages iproute suggests: pn iproute-doc <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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