Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:17:20 +1200 From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_bridge and IPv6? Message-ID: <20050829211720.GA55642@heff.fud.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <1125346643.2344.31.camel@localhost> References: <1125346643.2344.31.camel@localhost>
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 01:17:23PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > Hi folks-- > > Can anyone tell me if I should be able to run IPv6 over an if_bridge > interface? The bridge is layer2 so you should be able to use any layer3 protocol. > IPv4 seems to work fine over this; I can assign an IPv4 address to > bridge0 and everything seems normal. If I assign an IPv6 address to the > interface, no IPv6 packets seem to go in or out, and ping6-ing a machine > on the same subnet yields: > > hornet# ping6 other_address > PING6(56=40+8+8 nbytes) (net4801_address) --> (other_address) > _storelladdr: something odd happens > ping6: sendmsg: Invalid argument > ping6: wrote tomcat.kitchenlab.org 16 chars, ret=-1 > nd6_storelladdr: something odd happens > >From what I can tell this is from the bridge itself, does bridging work between ipv6 hosts on either side of the bridge? I will try and replicate this setup tonight. cheers, Andrew
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