Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:54:58 +0900 (JST) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> To: jhay@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org, jhb@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IFT_L2VLAN and IPv6 link-local addresses Message-ID: <20101221.005458.144703395.hrs@allbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201012200807.57670.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <20101220061057.GA36160@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> <201012200807.57670.jhb@freebsd.org>
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----Security_Multipart(Tue_Dec_21_00_54_58_2010_817)-- Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote in <201012200807.57670.jhb@freebsd.org>: jh> On Monday, December 20, 2010 1:10:57 am John Hay wrote: jh> > Hi, jh> > jh> > I see that on FreeBSD-8 if you use IPv6 inside vlans, the local part of jh> > the address (bottom 64 bits) is based on the MAC address of the first jh> > ethernet interface on the system. It was not like this in my old -7, jh> > machine, so I looked around a bit. It looks like it is because vlans were jh> > changed to report their type as IFT_L2VLAN. So I made this patch to the jh> > IPv6 code that fix it for me: jh> > jh> > Index: sys/netinet6/in6_ifattach.c jh> > =================================================================== jh> > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/netinet6/in6_ifattach.c,v jh> > retrieving revision 1.74.2.3 jh> > diff -u -U 5 -r1.74.2.3 in6_ifattach.c jh> > --- sys/netinet6/in6_ifattach.c 6 May 2010 06:44:19 -0000 1.74.2.3 jh> > +++ sys/netinet6/in6_ifattach.c 15 Dec 2010 18:33:45 -0000 jh> > @@ -265,10 +265,11 @@ jh> > addrlen = sdl->sdl_alen; jh> > jh> > /* get EUI64 */ jh> > switch (ifp->if_type) { jh> > case IFT_ETHER: jh> > + case IFT_L2VLAN: jh> > case IFT_FDDI: jh> > case IFT_ISO88025: jh> > case IFT_ATM: jh> > case IFT_IEEE1394: jh> > #ifdef IFT_IEEE80211 jh> > jh> > Anything against me committing it? Am I missing something? Should it be jh> > sorted differently? Should it also be merged? jh> jh> This looks correct. Please fix and MFC. I haven't merged the kernel changes jh> to change the type of IFT_ for vlan's yet as I was worried about applications jh> such as this needing to be updated (such as dhcpd for example). I had thought jh> that I had not merged the kernel change to 8 though, that it was just in 9? Agreed with the fix, but I think both 7.X and 8.X pick the first IF's address anyway. Which log message did you get, "borrow interface identifier from..." or "...got interface identifier from itself" when net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_debug=1 on 7.X and 8.X, respectively? -- Hiroki ----Security_Multipart(Tue_Dec_21_00_54_58_2010_817)-- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAk0PfFIACgkQTyzT2CeTzy1h4wCeJaHEMhyf3i+yNxZa7Gc7lyhS 4y0AoLBQk5pOySS60nEVIEppIeSaUY8o =ki4p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----Security_Multipart(Tue_Dec_21_00_54_58_2010_817)----
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