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Subject: Re: re(4) needs promisc to work properly
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At Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:46:00 +0100,
Ed Schouten wrote:
> 
> [1  <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>]
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE on my new desktop. It has the
> following hardware:
> 
> - Intel Core 2 Duo 6400
> - Asus P5B motherboard
> - On-board Realtek NIC (8168B/8111B)
> 
> For some reason, it drops all incoming IPv6 packets. I can only SSH to
> the machine using IPv6 when I run the following command:
> 
> $ ifconfig re0 promisc
> 
> Is this a known issue about these NICs?
> 

Is IPv6 turned on?

ipv6_enable="YES" in rc.conf

What addresses are you using?

It would help to have the output of:

ifconfig -a

netstat -rn

Best,
George