Messages in this thread | | | From | Christian Borntraeger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] s390 - mark IPv6 support for QETH as broken | Date | Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:15:17 +0200 |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org> wrote: > > The attached patch marks IPv6 support for QETH broken, it is known to > > need an extra patch to compile which was submitted one year ago but > > never accepted. > > Well fixing it would be the preferable approach. Where is the "extra > patch" and what was the complaint?
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/netdev/archive/2003-02/msg00061.html
The problem is that on s390 several virtual servers share the PHY and MAC part of the card and therefore have the same MAC address. Unfortunately IPv6 uses this MAC address to build an address. Now all virtual servers have the same auto configured IPv6 address - which is bad. The proposed solution was to enable network card drivers to define their own ipv6 address auto configuration. If I recall correctly Dave Miller was not sure about rfc compliance.
cheers
Christian
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