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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 17:30:08 -0700
From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
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To: Matthew Drobnak <mdrobnak@optonline.net>
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Subject: Re: More observations regarding IPv6 on PPC platform.
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Matthew Drobnak wrote:
> While I was attempting to debug a little bit, I installed tcpdump to see 
> if it was even seeing the router advertisements...Apparently it was..
> 
> On top of that, if you keep tcpdump running, IPv6 works fine!
tcpdump keeps ethn in promiscuous mode. Maybe this is what was expected?

> I noticed that when I had it manually configured, whenever any sort of 
> routing was necessary, a neighbor solicitation was sent out, but never 
> made it to the other end. However, if I let it auto configure, it worked 
> fine, and as well if I added on the secondary addresss using "ifconfig 
> eth1 add ....", so, with that being said, is it a MAC or IP address 
> filtering problem?
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated, I'd like to get this running, as I'm a 
> big fan of IPv6... I have 1 IPv4 address, but a whole /48 to work with. :-D
Addresses for free.

Thunder
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