From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Dichtel Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:56:20 +0100 Subject: [LTP] [RFC] [PATCH] netns: Fix race in virtual interface bringup In-Reply-To: <20171115190423.kcrzl2odqtdr6ghg@xps> References: <20171109203841.28856-1-dan.rue@linaro.org> <20171115190423.kcrzl2odqtdr6ghg@xps> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: ltp@lists.linux.it Le 15/11/2017 à 20:04, Dan Rue a écrit : > Adding CC netdev > > Can someone comment on the expected behavior of this test case? > > Here's the isolated test: > > ip netns del tst_net_ns0 > ip netns del tst_net_ns1 > ip netns add tst_net_ns0 > ip netns add tst_net_ns1 > ip netns exec tst_net_ns0 ip link add veth0 type veth peer name veth1 > ip netns exec tst_net_ns0 ip link set veth1 netns tst_net_ns1 > > ip netns exec tst_net_ns0 ifconfig veth0 inet6 add fd00::2/64 > ip netns exec tst_net_ns1 ifconfig veth1 inet6 add fd00::3/64 ip netns exec tst_net_ns0 sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_dad=0 ip netns exec tst_net_ns0 sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.veth0.accept_dad=0 ip netns exec tst_net_ns1 sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_dad=0 ip netns exec tst_net_ns1 sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.veth1.accept_dad=0 > ip netns exec tst_net_ns0 ifconfig veth0 up > ip netns exec tst_net_ns1 ifconfig veth1 up > > #sleep 2> > ip netns exec tst_net_ns0 ping6 -q -c2 -I veth0 fd00::3 > > This is essentially what LTP is running. Sometimes, on some systems, > ping6 fails with "connect: Cannot assign requested address". Adding a > "sleep 2" always fixes it (but we'd obviously like to avoid a hard coded > sleep in the test). Probably due to DAD. By disabling DAD, you should be able to use immediately the ipv6 addrs. Regards, Nicolas