Bug 29028 - IPv6 module options are wrong.
Summary: IPv6 module options are wrong.
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-23 14:18 UTC by Andrew Sydelko
Modified: 2008-08-01 16:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-02-23 16:26:47 UTC
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Description Andrew Sydelko 2001-02-23 14:18:04 UTC
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The way IPv6 was compiled as a module does not
allow for the "current" way of numbering.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. modprobe ipv6
2.look for "IPv6 addrconf: prefix with wrong length 64" in kernel messages


Expected Results:  the EUI-64 is the standard (or the way that Solaris and
FreeBSD do it)
way of doing IPv6.

The kernel config (in menuconfig) should have:

<M>   The IPv6 protocol (EXPERIMENTAL) (NEW)  
          [*]     IPv6: enable EUI-64 token format (NEW)     
          [*]       IPv6: disable provider based addresses (NEW) 

More information about this can be found at Peter
Bieringer's Linux IPv6 web page:

	http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6

Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2001-02-23 16:16:10 UTC
What kernel are you looking at ? We changed to this options to what
you propose some time ago.

Comment 2 Andrew Sydelko 2001-02-23 16:26:43 UTC
It's the default kernel for wolverine.
I looked in /usr/src/linux-2.4.1/configs/*
for the kernel config and the ones that have IPv6
enabled have the following set:

kernel-2.4.1-i386.config:CONFIG_IPV6=m
kernel-2.4.1-i386.config:# CONFIG_IPV6_EUI64 is not set

[root@localhost sysconfig]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.1-0.1.9 #1 Wed Feb 14 22:15:15 EST 2001 i686 
unknown

[root@localhost sysconfig]# rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.4.1-0.1.9

[root@localhost sysconfig]# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Linux release 7.0.91 (Wolverine)

Comment 3 Michael K. Johnson 2001-02-23 16:28:24 UTC
Correct, not in wolverine.  Will be in all builds 2.4.1-0.1.14 or later.


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