Salute, just wanna bring to notice, that the suggested solution fixed our problem with some of the virtual machines (kvm-85, debian lenny + latest backport, tho).
Not sure, if it belongs into "wishlist" then. The virtual machines use the bridge "br0" for having their own interface, they run Java and get network traffic constantly. We had the phenomenon of broken sockets. On the virtual machine the "serving" socket was already gone while on the client side the socket was still intact (established). As if the traffic gets swallowed somewhere. On the physical machine: $ cat /etc/network/interfaces ... auto br0 iface br0 inet static address ... netmask ... network ... broadcast ... gateway ... bridge_ports eth0 bridge_fd 9 bridge_hello 2 bridge_maxage 12 bridge_stp off The template for the virtual machine shows: $ sudo virsh edit virtualmachine ... <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='53:52:00:24:95:90'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <target dev='vnet0'/> <model type='virtio'/> ... So when i start the virtual machine: $ sudo virsh start virtualmachine it shows: $ sudo ip -6 route show fe80::/64 dev br0 ... fe80::/64 dev eth0 ... fe80::/64 dev vnet0 ... And since we did this, as suggested: $ sudo ip -6 route del fe80::/64 dev eth0 $ sudo ip -6 route del fe80::/64 dev vnet0 everything seems to work fine. The machines are stable now for several days. -- bridge-utils ifupdown script should disable IPv6 address autoconfiguration for underlying interface https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/377474 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to bridge-utils in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs