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Date:      Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:19:42 -0700
From:      "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org>
To:        Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, bmah@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: if_bridge and IPv6?
Message-ID:  <1125364782.19062.3.camel@tomcat.kitchenlab.org>
In-Reply-To: <1125351478.2344.44.camel@localhost>
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If memory serves me right, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> If memory serves me right, Andrew Thompson wrote:
>=20
> > From what I can tell this is from the bridge itself, does bridging work
> > between ipv6 hosts on either side of the bridge?
>=20
> Hmm...I haven't tried that yet.  Unfortunately I'm not in close
> proximity to the system in question at the moment, so it'll be a few
> hours (evening, San Francisco time) until I can try this.  I'll test and
> report back.

Bridging of IPv6 packets going between two hosts on either side of the
bridge appears to work just fine (to the point where I can do ping6 and
ssh across the bridge).

> PS.  Food for thought:  Should bridge devices have IFF_MULTICAST set?
> Mine doesn't.
>=20
> hornet# ifconfig bridge0
> bridge0: flags=3D41<UP,RUNNING> mtu 1500
>         inet (foo) netmask 0xffffff00
>         inet6 (bar) prefixlen 64
>         ether ac:de:48:cd:e2:32
>         priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20
>         member: sis1 flags=3D3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
>         member: sis0 flags=3D3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>

This looks more and more suspicious to me.  IPv6 ND requires multicast
to work and there are several explicit checks for IFF_MULTICAST in the
IPv6 output path and neighbor discovery code.

Bruce.



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