Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | | From | "Dale Farnsworth" <> | | Date | Tue, 14 May 2002 15:32:30 -0700 | | Subject | ip autoconfig skips ipv6 dev initialization |
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I've been doing some ipv6 testing here on some nfs-rooted 2.4.18 systems. I found that ipv6 initialization isn't performed on an ipv4-autoconfigured network device, leaving it without a link-local address. It happens because ip_auto_config() is executed before inet6_init() has a chance to register to handle NETDEV_UP notifications. This only occurs when ipv6 support is compiled into the kernel.
A fix is to do the ipv6 initialization before ipv4 initialization. The included patch resolved it for me. Please apply or suggest an alternative.
Thanks, -Dale Farnsworth
--- linux.orig/net/Makefile Tue May 14 12:33:40 2002 +++ linux/net/Makefile Tue May 14 12:34:35 2002 @@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ subdir-$(CONFIG_NET) += 802 sched netlink +subdir-$(CONFIG_IPV6) += ipv6 subdir-$(CONFIG_INET) += ipv4 subdir-$(CONFIG_NETFILTER) += ipv4/netfilter subdir-$(CONFIG_UNIX) += unix -subdir-$(CONFIG_IPV6) += ipv6 ifneq ($(CONFIG_IPV6),n) ifneq ($(CONFIG_IPV6),) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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