Re: Default route and laptop suspend

"Todd T. Fries" <[email protected]> Tue, 17 May 2005 11:11:50 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.ipv6
Organization Free Daemon Consulting, LLC
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Does this happen on every suspend or just the long term ones?

On 2005-05-17 at 14:40 +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> You have a station that uses IPv6 autoconfiguration to obtain its
> address and the default route.  Now you temporarily stop that
> station, e.g. it's a laptop and you put it into suspend mode.  When
> you reawaken it some time later, the default route is gone and you
> either have to explicitly call rtsol(8) or wait some minutes for
> the next regular router advertisement to fly by.
> 
> This is somewhat annoying and I don't understand why the route
> disappears in the first place.
> 
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Todd Fries .. [email protected]

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