Why ipv6 host routes assigned to loopback interface remains in the routing table after deleting them manually in RHEL6?
Issue
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When we add IPv6 addresses to the loopback interface (lo), deleting them again from the host, the routes still persist,although they are unreachable.
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Such behaviour is not seen with physical interfaces, the routes gets removed cleanly with no issues.
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Why does this happen? Is it possible to remove such routes?
Environment
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.4.
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IPv6 routing.
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