Bug 223431 - IPv6 autoconfigure does not work with kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6.x86_64
Summary: IPv6 autoconfigure does not work with kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6.x86_64
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Whiteboard:
: 225105 227989 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-01-19 09:45 UTC by Per Steinar Iversen
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-02-15 19:16:02 UTC
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Description Per Steinar Iversen 2007-01-19 09:45:41 UTC
Description of problem:

kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6.x86_64 does not autoconfigure IPv6 at boot.
kernel-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6.x86_64 works ok.

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

kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6.x86_64

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6.x86_64
2. Boot
3.
  
Actual results:

No public IPv6 address found on eth0. The link-local one is present (fe80::...)

Expected results:

A public IPv6 address should be active on eth0

Additional info:

Running kernel-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6.x86_64 seems to be the best current workaround.

Comment 1 Tom Hughes 2007-01-20 00:48:23 UTC
I've seen this as well - the router discoery message seems to be sent, and radvd
seems to reply with a router advertisment message but it seems tobe ignored and
no address is allocated.

Comment 2 Eric Hopper 2007-01-20 20:02:06 UTC
I'm also having this exact same problem.


Comment 3 Pierre Ossman 2007-01-21 11:45:18 UTC
Apparently a fix in 2.6.19.2 (which I assumed has been merged into RH:s kernel)
broke this. The fix has been posted to netdev:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg22663.html

It would be nice if this could be included into the RPM in the near future.

Comment 4 Eric Hopper 2007-01-23 10:59:26 UTC
Can the severity of this be changed to high?  It should be at least 'high'
because this completely breaks almost any IPv6 LAN with FC 6 boxes on it.

Comment 5 Peter Bieringer 2007-02-09 11:59:42 UTC
Same problem hits me on an i686 kernel, not nice...

Comment 6 Chuck Ebbert 2007-02-09 14:42:57 UTC
Fixed in pending update kernel, built yesterday, should go into testing today.

Comment 7 Chuck Ebbert 2007-02-09 14:43:48 UTC
*** Bug 227989 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Chuck Ebbert 2007-02-09 14:45:10 UTC
*** Bug 225105 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Per Steinar Iversen 2007-02-13 15:02:08 UTC
Today kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6.x86_64 appeared on updates-testing. It fixes the
problem on my machine at least.


Comment 10 Andreas Müller 2007-02-14 10:09:33 UTC
2911 fixes the problem on two i686 machines.

Comment 11 Eric Hopper 2007-02-15 19:14:42 UTC
It works for me on my dual processor 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 system.

25 days lag between noticing a problem with the IPv6 equivalent of DHCP and
having it fixed seems a little ridiculous to me.  Should I simply not bother
with IPv6 on any of my networks since RedHat doesn't really want to support it?


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