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On 14/01/2026 17:49, Anssi Saari wrote:
> Pancho <
Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 12/30/25 20:00, David Higton wrote:
>>> In message <10iv40e$1e1ba$1@dont-email.me>
>>> Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> IPv6 seems like a world of pain.
>>> In my experience it just works.
>>>
>>
>> I`m surprised. Accepting that you do not do some of the things I do,
>> like policy routing rules based upon a host computer IP...
>
> I actually do that. I route my IPTV boxes out via an alternate interface
> due to some stupid contractual issues. So all I did was add routing
> rules with ip -6 rule add from $addr table Magic and all the Magic table
> has is a defaultroute out via the other interface. Same as IPv4. But
> maybe your policy routing is something different?
>
> For sure this would be a problem if the IPv6 addresses were changing all
> the time but they haven`t.
Some routers will let you use the source mac address in routing rules
which nicely overcomes the problem with varying IPv6 addresses.
John
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