(usagi-users 03290) Re: Trouble with 2.6.11 Linux

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bellino, Phil" <[email protected]>
To: "Users-IPv6" <[email protected]>; "Users-Usagi" <[email protected]>; "Users-Deepspace" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 12:33 AM
Subject: (usagi-users 03289) Trouble with 2.6.11 Linux


> Hello,
> 
> I have a 2.6.5 Linux running router radvd.
> I also have 2.6.5 clients(and a 2.4.20 client) that accept the router
> advertisements from the router and acquire a Link-Global address and also
> autoconfigures their Link-Local address. 
> Their configs:
> ipv6.conf.eth0.accept_ra=1
> ipv6.conf.all.accept_ra=1
> ipv6.conf.default.accept_ra=1
> 
> I have a 2.6.11 client host that does not accept any router advertisements
> even though it's config is the same as above. (I have compared the "sysctl
> -a" output on both the 2.6.5 and 2.6.11 and they are identical).  In fact
> the following is what occurs at boot time:
> 
> 1.  When I boot up this client, eth0 does not have the inet6 Link-local
> address.
> If I then issue:
> ifconfig eth0 down
> ifconfig eth0 up

Are you sure your network card is up when booting the system?
you can check /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
to see
ONBOOT=yes or no?
You need to set it to yes so it will startup network card while booting.

> 
> The inet6 Link-local address then appears.
> 
> 2. My 2.6.11 host does not learn this prefix and as a result there is no
> Link-Global address.

In /etc/radvd.conf, it defines the prefix. So when sending RA it will anounce router's prefix to all the host connected to it.