This is still happening with 237-3ubuntu10.42 in Bionic. RA routes announced with lifetime of 0s are not removed. It is the firewall which used to be the default router which (continously) announce these 0s lifetimes to make sure there are no issues with failover. $ ip -6 route show default default proto ra metric 100 nexthop via fe80::21b:21ff:febc:97e6 dev eth0 weight 1 nexthop via fe80::21b:21ff:febc:9416 dev eth0 weight 1 $ sudo rdisc6 eth0 Soliciting ff02::2 (ff02::2) on eth0... Hop limit : 64 ( 0x40) Stateful address conf. : No Stateful other conf. : No Mobile home agent : No Router preference : medium Neighbor discovery proxy : No Router lifetime : 0 (0x00000000) seconds Reachable time : unspecified (0x00000000) Retransmit time : unspecified (0x00000000) Recursive DNS server : 2a02:c0::1 DNS server lifetime : 2419200 (0x0024ea00) seconds from fe80::21b:21ff:febc:9416 Hop limit : 64 ( 0x40) Stateful address conf. : No Stateful other conf. : No Mobile home agent : No Router preference : medium Neighbor discovery proxy : No Router lifetime : 0 (0x00000000) seconds Reachable time : unspecified (0x00000000) Retransmit time : unspecified (0x00000000) Recursive DNS server : 2a02:c0::1 DNS server lifetime : 2419200 (0x0024ea00) seconds from fe80::21b:21ff:febc:9416 Hop limit : 64 ( 0x40) Stateful address conf. : No Stateful other conf. : No Mobile home agent : No Router preference : medium Neighbor discovery proxy : No Router lifetime : 30 (0x0000001e) seconds Reachable time : unspecified (0x00000000) Retransmit time : unspecified (0x00000000) Prefix : 2a02:c0:900:113::/64 On-link : Yes Autonomous address conf.: Yes Valid time : 86400 (0x00015180) seconds Pref. time : 14400 (0x00003840) seconds Recursive DNS server : 2a02:c0::1 DNS server lifetime : 2419200 (0x0024ea00) seconds from fe80::21b:21ff:febc:97e6 Hop limit : 64 ( 0x40) Stateful address conf. : No Stateful other conf. : No Mobile home agent : No Router preference : medium Neighbor discovery proxy : No Router lifetime : 30 (0x0000001e) seconds Reachable time : unspecified (0x00000000) Retransmit time : unspecified (0x00000000) Prefix : 2a02:c0:900:113::/64 On-link : Yes Autonomous address conf.: Yes Valid time : 86400 (0x00015180) seconds Pref. time : 14400 (0x00003840) seconds Recursive DNS server : 2a02:c0::1 DNS server lifetime : 2419200 (0x0024ea00) seconds from fe80::21b:21ff:febc:97e6