From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: NetDev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Add/Delete IPv6 addresses and netlink
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:18:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080617121821.GC20815@postel.suug.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48571470.7010307@candelatech.com>
* Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> 2008-06-16 18:33
> I am not sure whether I am just confused about how all of this is
> supposed to work or not, but the
> following commands will leave the global address in tentative state:
>
> ip link set eth1 down; ip -6 addr flush dev eth1;
> ip -6 addr add 2000::9:2/112 scope global dev eth1
> ip link set eth1 up
> # Wait 10+ seconds
> ip -6 addr show dev eth1
> 3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qlen 1000
> inet6 2000::9:2/112 scope global tentative
> valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> inet6 fe80::203:2dff:fe0c:d022/64 scope link
> valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
Do you see a "ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready"
message in the console when you up the device?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-17 12:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-17 1:33 Add/Delete IPv6 addresses and netlink Ben Greear
2008-06-17 12:18 ` Thomas Graf [this message]
2008-06-17 15:47 ` Ben Greear
2008-06-21 5:25 ` Ben Greear
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