IPv6 autoconfiguration fails

[Bruce Cran]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:56:29 -0500
Steve Bertrand <steve at ibctech.ca> wrote:

> Bruce Cran wrote:
> > [forwarding from current@]
> > 
> > I recently reinstalled -current on my laptop and have started seeing
> > IPv6 autoconfiguration failing.  I have two interfaces re0 and
> > ath0: re0 is plugged in and gets an address via DHCP while I'm not
> > using wireless at the moment so ath0 remains unconfigured.  However
> > it seems the IPv6 autoconfiguration tries to use ath0 instead of
> > re0.
> 
> There is a very similar issue over on -questions.
> 
> Does it help if you disable rtadv on ath0?:
> 
> # ndp -i ath0 -- -accept_rtadv

It didn't help, but your last message on -questions made me realise I'd
made the classic mistake of enabling a firewall but not allowing inbound
icmp[6] packets.  As soon as I'd reloaded the rules things started
working again.

-- 
Bruce Cran