From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:54:51 -0400 From: Noah Meyerhans To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, md@linux.it Subject: Re: IPv6 ND on PPC hardware Message-ID: <20020702165451.F7563@morgul.net> References: <20020702113642.GA2654@wonderland.linux.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020702113642.GA2654@wonderland.linux.it>; from md@Linux.IT on Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 01:36:42PM +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 01:36:42PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I do not understand why ND is not working. Is my configuration wrong or > I have exposed a kernel bug? It is likely a problem with broken multicast support. > When I try to ping another host on the LAN it usually works the first > time, and then stops working because the other host does not reply to > ND requests. Everything works again if I switch the remote interface > in promiscuous mode. This sounds even more likely to be broken multicast support. Do you see the proper behavior if you enable allmulti on your interface, rather than promiscuous mode? A driver bug could be what's causing multicast not to work. That's probably most likely, though there also could be a problem with hardware. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html=20 ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/