From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267585AbUG2QJ5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:09:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267584AbUG2QCY (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:02:24 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.193]:492 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268083AbUG2Pym (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:54:42 -0400 Message-ID: <40c36779040729085427f0231a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:54:41 -0400 From: Brian Bruns To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Interfaces losing inet6 addresses in ifconfig output after some uptime In-Reply-To: <1091108537.14310.33.camel@nowhere.openssl.softmedia.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <1091108537.14310.33.camel@nowhere.openssl.softmedia.lan> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:42:17 +0200, Marcello Barnaba wrote: > This is somewhat strange, after an average of 25 days of uptime, either > with kernel 2.6.6 or kernel 2.6.7 (didn't notice this with earlier > kernels, but the problem may be there as well, sorry but I didn't care > about this before, and the box is in production so it cannot be rebooted > easily), ifconfig does not display the inet6 addresses of my interfaces > anymore, but the addresses work as expected and are correctly in iproute > output: > I can confirm a somewhat similar problem on vanilla x86 2.6.7 kernel running on an Athlon XP 2000+, EEPro 1000/TX. Basically, ifconfig shows all but the first inet6 address. However, the address is still recognized by the standard 'ip' program, and can be bound to by applications as normal. Uptime is 29 days, and I don't have the luxury of rebooting the box to see if it clears the issue. If you need more information on the system, please feel free to let me know what you need exactly, and I'll get it to you. -- Brian Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group Open Solutions For A Closed World / Anti-Spam Resources http://www.sosdg.org The Abusive Hosts Blocking List http://www.ahbl.org