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Message-ID: <4CD82F70.3090605@candelatech.com>
Date:	Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:12:16 -0800
From:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
To:	Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
CC:	Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@....pp.se>,
	NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: radvd and auto-ipv6 address regression from 2.6.31 to 2.6.34+

On 11/08/2010 07:54 AM, Brian Haley wrote:
> On 11/06/2010 02:17 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>> I would not be surprised if the IPv6 stack on Linux would gain IPv6
>> addresses using SLAAC from any interface if it sees RAs on it,
>> regardless if these are locally generated or not.
>>
>> I guess any Linux device running radvd should turn off autoconf on those
>> interface that radvd is acting on?
>>
>> net.ipv6.conf.veth0.accept_ra=0 should do the trick?
>
> I believe radvd will turn-on IPv6 forwarding on all the interfaces, at
> least it does on Debian in /etc/init.d/radvd, which essentially disables
> the reception of RA's for address configuration purposes.  I'm curious
> what these values are set to, and if something just got missed.
>
> It might be something specific to veth too, not sure how packets are
> copied/looped-back on these devices from the stack.

It's reproducible on standard Ethernet interfaces connected to
a different machine (and one that is not running radvd or anything
special).

I'll double-check that we have forwarding enabled, though
I'm pretty sure we do.

Thanks,
Ben

>
> -Brian


-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

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