Hello, David, Thanks so much for your response. Comments in-line....
>> I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-Release in one of my boxes, and there seems to >> be a bug in the processing of Router Advertisement messages. >> >> RA messages seem to be required to have a Source Address in the >> fe80::/32 prefix, rather than in the fe80::/10 prefix. That is, the >> first 32 bits of the IPv6 Source address must be fe80:0000, or else the >> message is dropped (at least, no changes are made to the destination >> cache or the neighbor cache). >> >> Can anybody confirm this one, or correct me if I am wrong? > > A cursory look at the netinet6/nd6_rtr.c code looks like it is using > IN6_IS_ADDR_LINKLOCAL from netinet6/in6.h which should be smart enough > to just look at fe80::/10. Agreed. > Try setting net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_debug=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf and reboot > to see if there is anything interesting coming out of debug logging. > (will show in dmesg and /var/log/messages) Nothing interesting. :-( But still the same problem... > Out of curiousity, what device is using a non EUI-64 for link-local, > or is this a manually configured link-local situation ? I'm just playing with a RouterAdvertisement forging tool I just built. I've checked the on-the-wire packets, and they seem to be correct. :-( Thanks, -- Fernando Gont e-mail: ferna...@gont.com.ar || fg...@acm.org PGP Fingerprint: 7809 84F5 322E 45C7 F1C9 3945 96EE A9EF D076 FFF1 _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
