From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roland Dreier Subject: Re: IPv6 default routes timing out? Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:34:21 -0700 Message-ID: References: <874osv8jyo.fsf@shaolin.home.digitalvampire.org> <1248914038.13447.17.camel@merlyn> <87k51q6raq.fsf@shaolin.home.digitalvampire.org> <1248975058.7167.28.camel@Maple> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Roland Dreier , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: John Dykstra Return-path: Received: from sj-iport-6.cisco.com ([171.71.176.117]:53371 "EHLO sj-iport-6.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750804AbZG3SeW (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:34:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1248975058.7167.28.camel@Maple> (John Dykstra's message of "Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:30:58 -0500") Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > > Thanks, I did some more debugging it seems the issue is in the > > router's (openbsd) wireless driver -- it thinks it is broadcasting > > router advertisements but they aren't making it to the laptop. > Could it be that there's something buggy in the laptop wireless driver > or hardware re filtering of multicast packets at the L2 level? Well, I see router advertisements (and pings to ff02::1) from the router on both of the two laptops I have handy, and then after a while the openbsd system seems to stop broadcasting -- I no longer see the broadcast ipv6 packets on either laptop, but if I just do "ifconfig ral0 down; ifconfig ral0 up" on the openbsd system then everything seems to come back. So it seems unlikely that the problem is anywhere except on the openbsd system sending. It's interesting to note that the only broadcasts that the openbsd router is going to send that matter in my setup are ipv6 router advertisements -- before I started using ipv4, all the broadcasts would have been arps from the laptops to the router, so I would have never noticed that the router stopped being able to broadcast. - R.