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Subject: Re: E1000E/82567LM-3: link reported up too soon
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From: arno@natisbad.org (Arnaud Ebalard)
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:09:16 +0200

> The packets sent are an IPv6 Router Solicitation (to get IPv6 subnet
> prefixes from the router) and a DHCP Request (to get an IPv4 address
> from the DHCP server). 
> 
> The former is sent from the unspecified address (::) and the latter from
> 0.0.0.0. The former is sent by UMIP Mobile IPv6 daemon. The second by my
> DHCP client. They both use netlink to do that as soon as the link is up.
> Both are for address configuration ...

So do both DHCP request and the IPV6 RS get dropped, or just the IPV6 RS?