Re: IPv6 router advertisement broken on 2.6.20-rc5

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Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> I have just tried a 2.6.20-rc5 kernel (I previously used a 2.6.19 one),
> and I have noticed that the IPv6 router advertisement functionality is
> broken. The interface is not attributed an IPv6 address anymore, despite
> /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/ra_accept being set to 1 (also true for each
> individual interface configuration).
> 
> Using tcpdump, I am seeing the router advertisement messages arriving on
> the interface, but they seems to be ignored.

ACK as far as seeing the same thing.  Another symptom: ping6 to the
link-local all-nodes address (ff02::1) is similarly broken.  tcpdump
shows the packets on the wire, but there's no response.  The most
recent kernel from kernel.org where IPv6 seems to be behaving properly
is 2.6.20-rc3.

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