On Tue, 2004-10-05 21:27:12 +0100, Russell King wrote in message <20041005212712.I6910@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 08:52:14PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > It's rather annoying because it currently means that, when my PCMCIA net > interface on the firewall comes up, the IPv4 configuration works fine > but IPv6 configuration falls dead on its nose without any explaination > why. > > And, like I say, redirecting fd0,1,2 fixes it. I see this at home, too, but here, I use radvd to distribute a working IPv6 configuration. However, the root cause seems to be different: this card (some cheap NE2k clone driven by pcnet_cs) seems to ignore the router advertisements. If I 'ifconfig eth0 promisc' the interface right after insertion (before the timer for interface IPv6-auto-configutation expires), it works as expected... MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));