From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Nico Schottelius <nico.schottelius@ungleich.ch>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPv6 addresses stay tentative (Linux 5.4.6, 5.4.7)
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 09:53:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cd988e58-5e75-5ba5-185b-fd0f2a2f84df@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mub7tbr3.fsf@ungleich.ch>
On 1/1/20 4:30 PM, Nico Schottelius wrote:
>
> https://roy.marples.name/archives/dhcpcd-discuss/0002774.html
>
> p.s.: I am using accept_ra = 2, because forwarding is also enabled.
>
> Hello,
>
> it seems something in the kernel code changed in regard to setting IPv6
> addresses usable (i.e. dad done). Since 5.4.6 IPv6 addresses setup
> statically or via autoconf (router advertisements) seem so stay in
> "tentative" state forever.
>
> I did not experience this behaviour in 5.3.13 (*) and it seems I am not
> the only one affected:
>
> I turned dhcpcd off to test whether it happens without it and indeed the
> problem seems to be unrelated to dhcpcd.
>
> Does anyone know about a recent change that may cause this behaviour?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Nico
>
> (*) I cannot boot kernels 5.4.x < 5.4.6, as the wifi card does not show
> up with them.
>
I do not see this behavior with vanilla 5.5.
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2020-01-01 15:30 IPv6 addresses stay tentative (Linux 5.4.6, 5.4.7) Nico Schottelius
2020-01-02 16:53 ` David Ahern [this message]
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