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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: IPv6 & Bridging don't work together
In-Reply-To: <390AE138.7871AC31@quack.kfu.com> from Nick Sayer at "Apr 29, 2000
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To: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>
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Nick,
are you sure the problem does not depend upon having bridge_ipfw=1 ?
I don't think there is anything else IPv4-specific in the bridging
code, if it was we would also have problems with IPv4/IPX
and other non-ip protocols.

	cheers
	luigi

> Alas,
> IPv6 does not appear to work correctly with the bridge.
> 
> If I configure the interface on one side of the bridge, it is not
> ping6able by
> hosts on the other side. If I configure both sides with separate
> prefixes, then
> both of the prefixes show up on all of the hosts.
> 
> I don't really care if I can bridge IPv6 or not, truth be told. With
> IPv6 the
> vast number of subnets makes it unnecessary to bridge. But I need to be
> able to
> either keep the two interfaces totally separate despite the bridging of
> other
> protocols (specifically IPv4) or I need bridging to work correctly.
> Either way.
> 
> 
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