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On 14/01/2026 17:49, Anssi Saari wrote:
> Pancho  writes:
> 
>> On 12/30/25 20:00, David Higton wrote:
>>> In message <10iv40e$1e1ba$1@dont-email.me>
>>>             Pancho  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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