(usagi-users 00527) Re: [mipl] Autoconfiguration problem with radvd

[Teemu Rinta-aho <teemu.rinta-aho@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 18 May 2001, Venkata Jagana wrote:

> When the router boots, if we enable forwarding
> (net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding)
> and then start radvd, the two local interfaces on the router don't get
> global
> addresses and also there are no corresponding route entries. However the 2

If you enable forwarding, it implicitly disables the
acceptance of Router Advertisements. This is one
of the million or so "nice" undocumented features of
Linux... :-(

So, you have to configure the addresses to the
router by hand with ifconfig. You also have to
configure static routes or use RIPv6 or other
routing protocol.

If you absolutely positively want your router to
accept RAs, then hack yourself the ndisc_router_discovery
function in net/ipv6/ndisc.c. But it is probably
not wise to both send and receive RAs ;-)

BR,
Teemu

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