Commit 6c14652b authored by Juliusz Chroboczek's avatar Juliusz Chroboczek

Add note about dumb VPNs.

parent 39a823c5
...@@ -43,6 +43,20 @@ You will find the ahcp-generate-address utility, which can generate ...@@ -43,6 +43,20 @@ You will find the ahcp-generate-address utility, which can generate
random IPv6 addresses according to RFC 4193, in the ahcpd package. random IPv6 addresses according to RFC 4193, in the ahcpd package.
A note about tunnels and VPNs
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Some VPN implementations (notably OpenVPN and Linux GRE) do not
automatically add an IPv6 link-local address to the tunnel interface.
If you attempt to run Babel over such an interface, it will complain
that it ``couldn't allocate requested address''.
The solution is to manually add the link-local address to the
interface. This can be done by running e.g.
# ip -6 addr add $(ahcp-generate-address fe80::) dev gre0
3. Start the routing daemon 3. Start the routing daemon
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