Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 41349
radvd doesn't start up when IPv6 is enabled
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:00 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i586; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010316 Description of problem: When IPv6 is enabled (${NETWORKING_IPV6} is "yes"), the IPv6 router, radvd, is NOT started. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: As root: 1.install radvd 2.enable ipv6 with /etc/sysconfig/network line: NETWORKING_IPV6=yes 3.start radvd: /etc/init.d/radvd start Actual Results: # ps -ef |grep radvd |grep -v grep Expected Results: # ps -ef |grep radvd |grep -v grep root 4980 1 0 May18 ? 00:00:00 radvd Additional info: In file /etc/init.d/radvd change this line with "&&" to "||": # Check that networking is up. #[ x${NETWORKING_IPV6} = "xyes" ] && exit 0 [ x${NETWORKING_IPV6} = "xyes" ] || exit 0
This was already fixed in Powertools errata. Thanks for reporting anyway! :-)
I understand this fix has also been made in the "pl3" patch to radvd-0.6.2. This patch, with numerous radvd bug fixes, is by Nathan Lutchansky (lutchann) was released 4/28/2001 and is described and available from http://v6web.litech.org/radvd/ The original radvd source by Lars Fennenberg (without these patches) is at ftp://ftp.cityline.net/pub/systems/linux/network/ipv6/radvd/ radvd is described by Lars at http://www.linuxhq.com/IPv6/radvd.html