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Re: Test of d-i in IPv6-only environment (was: Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg)



On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 09:00:07PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote:
> - When the router announcements have "AdvOtherConfigFlag" set to
>   "On", i.e. they tell the client to do a DHCPv6 request for
>   additional (non-address) information, and the DHCPv6 server
>   does not respond, the client seems to infinitely try to get
>   a DHCPv6 reply.  After about 10 minutes I have killed the
>   dhcp6c process, but that results in the whole network
>   configuration process starting from the beginning.
>   I have attached the corresponding syslog part.
> 
>   Having router announcements with AdvOtherConfigFlag On and
>   a non-responding DHCPv6 server should of course not happen
>   in a correctly functioning network, but if possible it would
>   be nice if the client could timeout within a relatively 
>   short time when there is no reply, as it does for DHCPv4.
> 
>   All information which is strictly required for the installation
>   (prefix, gateway and DNS) has already been gathered from
>   the RA at this point and the installation could proceed
>   without the additional DHCPv6 info (domain name, NTP servers,
>   timezone info, etc.).

The timeout issue should be fixed with the current daily. It would
probably be good if you could retest that. I.e. there was a general
programming error that might not only have affected this specific
case.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

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