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On Mon, 2016-04-18 at 13:23 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote:

> You can't really implement complete IPv6 support in relayd though.
> Link-local routing is forbidden by the spec explicitly and a patch
> I've cooked up was rejected[1].
> 
> I guess this leaves either the kernel's wireless stack to take up the
> task or a special link device (for which I'm soliciting feedback now
> [2]).
> 

I think you'll probably have to cook up a simple patch to get that
question in [2] taken seriously :)

How much of that could be done with nftables btw?

johannes