IPv6 and timing oddities
Hi,
I'm not sure if this issue has been covered here before since I don't
subscribe to debian-users.
Anyway, it seems that the recent minor release upgrade for lenny may
have uncovered some timing issues that were not present beforehand. My
inet6 configurations in /etc/network/interfaces were not working anymore
for most of the machines running lenny that I oversee. There were a
couple of machines that were still working correctly. These two machines
were quite old and quite slow. One ran at a clock speed of 233.299 MHz
and the other was a slug running at its original factory clock speed
(33MHz?? /proc/cpuinfo doesn't say). All other faster machines including
an overclocked slug were not configuring correctly. Also, the
sysctl.conf settings for ipv6 were not going through.
All of the non-configuring machines would configure manually for IPv6
after coming up. The same holds for the sysctl kernel settings.
It seems that there is a timing situation with the ipv6 kernel module
that is happening here. After explicitly loading the module at startup
via the /etc/modules file, all was working correctly.
All was also working okay prior to this recent upgrade that involved a
kernel upgrade (same version).
-jeff
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