[Babel-users] babel, ipv6 and vlans

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

> In my never ending quest to find a safe way to experiment on a production
> network with new routing protocols, I said "to myself, self, why not try
> a vlan?"

Methinks you're over-complicating things.  But well.

> I can delete the link local address for the vlan's interface on the
> "normal" linux boxes (arm,x86, both running 2.6.33), and replace the fe80
> address with something else, but can't seem to stop it from autoconfiguring
> in the first place.

That's not a Babel issue, link-local addresses are assigned by the
kernel.

> and C) even when I think I do get "A" and "B" this "right", I still get
> a route to both the vlan and lan via babel, even though babel isn't
> listening to the vlan'd bridge or vlan'd interfaces.

That's normal, Babel redistributes routes independently of whether the
interfaces they go through participate in Babel.  If you don't want
that, you'll need to refine your filtering statements.

                                        Juliusz