Bug#550990: IPv6 is broken
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 05:00:25PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> retitle 550990 IPv6 is broken on arm
> thanks
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 02:34:41PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 14:03 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > > reopen 550990
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 07:28:45PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > > No, IPv6 is not broken. At least, not by the kernel.
> > > >
> > > > This is probably a bug in glibc or openssh.
> > >
> > > Please don't close bugs outright if you believe they're only misfiled.
> > > The bug is there; if you claim that it is not a kernel bug, then that's
> > > fine, but that doesn't mean you should assert it does not exist.
> >
> > Wouter, you're quite capable of investigating bugs and writing a
> > descriptive title. Don't act like a luser.
> > [...]
> > > Now I'm definitely willing to do some more investigation in order to
> > > pinpoint the right package to reassign this bug to, but please don't
> > > just tell me outright that it's not a bug again next time.
> >
> > You said "IPv6 is broken" and I correctly said "IPv6 is not broken".
>
> It is, on the machine I was running it on. Please.
Is it a Thecus N2100? IPv6 is far more dependent on multicast than
IPv4, and multicast configuration is broken on one version of the N2100.
This is a bug in a specific driver (or possibly the hardware): #488495.
Ben.
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