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Re: "Automatic" v6 address allocation



On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 14:57 +0100, Ard van Breemen wrote:
> Hi,
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:26:11AM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> > There can be a couple of things going wrong here:
> > 1) packetloss on the network, thus causing you to miss out on the RA's
> >    and the router to miss the RtSol's.
> I guess what actually happens (having switched from ndiswrapper
> to bcm43xx drivers) is that in the linux wifi stack AP
> association happens only after the link is brought up (such as ip
> link set up <device>), which can take 2 seconds or so before
> association is finished.
> 
> And the IPv6 stack probably sends these RouterSollicitations
> immidiately after the link is brought up, and not after the
> driver notifies the link is actually up.

What you can try to remedy is:
ip link set dev eth1 down
ip link set dev eth1 up

This is one of the few ways to get Linux to resend the rtsol.
On BSD's there is a rtsold tool, which would be handy in this case.

Greets,
 Jeroen

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