From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 11 04:53:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB84A16A41F for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 04:53:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au) Received: from asclepius.uwa.edu.au (asclepius2.uwa.edu.au [130.95.128.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1765943D46 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 04:53:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au) Received: from asclepius.kas (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by asclepius.uwa.edu.au (Postfix) with SMTP id BB622183418 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:53:38 +0800 (WST) Received: from asclepius (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by asclepius.prekas (Postfix) with SMTP id AD9FA183576 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:53:38 +0800 (WST) X-UWA-Client-IP: 130.95.13.9 (UWA) Received: from mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [130.95.13.9]) by asclepius.input (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0FAC18357E for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:53:38 +0800 (WST) Received: by mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Postfix, from userid 801) id C635F17E4D; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:53:37 +0800 (WST) Received: from mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [130.95.13.18]) by mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BC1617E45; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:53:37 +0800 (WST) Received: from zanchey (helo=localhost) by mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au with local-esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1E354T-0001Jo-00; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:53:37 +0800 Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:53:36 +0800 (WST) From: David Adam To: Mark Andrews In-Reply-To: <200508110055.j7B0tNOp047256@drugs.dv.isc.org> Message-ID: References: <200508110055.j7B0tNOp047256@drugs.dv.isc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: Formal (258/050810) X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: Detect Hard [UCS 290904] X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: SysLog X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: Marking Spam - Subject (UCS) [02-08-04] X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 2.0.0 [0125], KAS/Release Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPv6 router solicitation not being received X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 04:53:41 -0000 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