Re: System not accepting Route Advertisement packages
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 12:12:21PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At work, there's a FreeBSD system running rtadvd, which basically works.
> All systems I've tried on this network accept the route, except for one
> box, and I have no clue as to why.
>
> It's currently running 2.6.8.1, but it used to run 2.6.6, 2.6.7, and
> various inclinations of the 2.4-series of kernels. It's not the firewall
> (no netfilter support in the kernel -- the gateway takes care of that),
> that I'm sure of. The NIC is using a natsemi chipset; not sure whether
> this has anything to do with it.
My old laptop has a xircomm pcmcia network card which i need to put into
promiscuous mode for it to receive the router advertisements. Guess it's
worth a try on your box.
If that doesn't work, you can check the sysconf variables in
/proc/sys/net/ipv6. The kernel will for example ignore router advertisements
when forwarding is turned on.
Sjoerd
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