Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:53:36 +0800 (WST) From: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> To: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPv6 router solicitation not being received Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508111251500.4390@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <200508110055.j7B0tNOp047256@drugs.dv.isc.org> References: <200508110055.j7B0tNOp047256@drugs.dv.isc.org>
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Mark, On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Mark Andrews wrote: > I have a problem in that the router solicitations are not > being received by my FreeBSD IPv6 router unless I enable > promiscuous mode on the tx0 interface. This causes delays > to autoconf for other IPv6 boxes on the net until the > periodic router announcement is sent. > > This leads me to believe that either the multicast hash > function is wrong or the request for multicast reception > on the interface is not getting through to the driver. > > "rtadvd tx0" is running so theoretically it should be getting > through. Anyone aware of any issues in this area? Yes the > kernel is a bit old and needs to be updated. I have had similar problems with tx(4) on FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2, but unfortunately haven't had time to follow it up yet. (Just a headsup that this problem may still exist.) Cheers, David Adam zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
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