Bug 1119054 - SLAAC - IPv6 address goes away after sleep resume
Summary: SLAAC - IPv6 address goes away after sleep resume
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: NetworkManager
Version: 20
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dan Williams
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-07-13 16:02 UTC by Wolfgang Rupprecht
Modified: 2015-06-29 21:34 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-06-29 21:34:34 UTC
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Description Wolfgang Rupprecht 2014-07-13 16:02:04 UTC
Description of problem:

On a SLAAC network the IPv6 address goes away after sleep resume.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

NetworkManager-0.9.9.0-41.git20131003.fc20.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Close the lid of an an ethernet-connected laptop to cause to cause it 
   to sleep. 
2. Open lid to resume
3. ifconfig
4. notice that the IPv6 addresses are gone.

Actual results:
IPv6 addresses are gone for a few minutes after resume.  (They do always return after a while.)

Expected results:
IPv6 addresses still are present after a resume.

Additional info:
I only have one laptop to test against, so it might well be a timing issue with this particular ethernet chip.  (laptop: 2006 AMD athlon/64 based Compaq v5005z)

Comment 1 Bill C. Riemers 2014-07-14 12:40:55 UTC
Actually I was about to post the reverse problem.   I have dnsmasq set to a lease time of 10 minutes.

dhcp-range=tag:br0,::1,::ffff, constructor:br0,ra-stateless,64, 10m
enable-ra

I do this so if a router loses it's connection in an a multi-homed network, that the hosts all know to stop trying to route to that router after 10 minutes.

But I noticed even after my laptop has been asleep for hours, the IPv6 addresses are still there after a resume.  I know it hasn't reached out to the routers yet, because the IPv4 addresses are gone...

I don't know if the IPv6 address would disappear after a few minutes if the routers were turned off.  But it sounds like from this "bug" report, that is exactly what would happen.   Which is what I want.

In this case, I did not notice my IPv6 addresses disappearing.   But then my addresses are SLAAC addresses, and maybe those have special rules.

Comment 2 Wolfgang Rupprecht 2014-12-27 20:24:45 UTC
The bug appears to be related to the Router-Solicitation / Router-Advertisement not being acted on.    A beaglebone black running Debian plugged into the same ethernet gets an IPv6 assignment right away.   Fedora-21 running NetworkManager needs to wait till the first unsolicited Router Advertisement before it gets its IPv6 assignment.   Is NetowrkManager somehow blocking the normal in-kernel RS/RA?

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