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Date:      Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:42:51 +0000
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPv6 autoconfiguration fails
Message-ID:  <20090212154251.5742210a@gluon>
In-Reply-To: <4994389D.8050203@ibctech.ca>
References:  <20090212005249.10ce416c@gluon> <4994389D.8050203@ibctech.ca>

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On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:56:29 -0500
Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> wrote:

> Bruce Cran wrote:
> > [forwarding from current@]
> > 
> > I recently reinstalled -current on my laptop and have started seeing
> > IPv6 autoconfiguration failing.  I have two interfaces re0 and
> > ath0: re0 is plugged in and gets an address via DHCP while I'm not
> > using wireless at the moment so ath0 remains unconfigured.  However
> > it seems the IPv6 autoconfiguration tries to use ath0 instead of
> > re0.
> 
> There is a very similar issue over on -questions.
> 
> Does it help if you disable rtadv on ath0?:
> 
> # ndp -i ath0 -- -accept_rtadv

It didn't help, but your last message on -questions made me realise I'd
made the classic mistake of enabling a firewall but not allowing inbound
icmp[6] packets.  As soon as I'd reloaded the rules things started
working again.

-- 
Bruce Cran



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