From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261467AbULIHT0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2004 02:19:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261470AbULIHT0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2004 02:19:26 -0500 Received: from havoc.gtf.org ([69.28.190.101]:23683 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261467AbULIHTW (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2004 02:19:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 02:19:21 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik To: felix-linuxkernel@fefe.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ipv6 getting more and more broken Message-ID: <20041209071921.GA9080@havoc.gtf.org> References: <20041209024649.GA26553@codeblau.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041209024649.GA26553@codeblau.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:46:49AM +0100, felix-linuxkernel@fefe.de wrote: > In 2.6.9, the machines don't even get a link-local address when bringing > an interface up! This is so utterly and completely broken, how can it > be that nobody has noticed this yet? I have compiled in ipv6 > statically, not as a module, but that should not matter, right? I've seen a couple link-local-addr-related bug reports. Not sure if those have been discussed yet. In general, there have been a bunch of IPv6 fixes recently, can you please test 2.6.10-rc3 (and/or 2.6.10-rc3-bk3)? Jeff