IPv6 router solicitation not being received

[David Adam]

Mark,

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Mark Andrews wrote:

> 	I have a problem in that the router solicitations are not
> 	being received by my FreeBSD IPv6 router unless I enable
> 	promiscuous mode on the tx0 interface.  This causes delays
> 	to autoconf for other IPv6 boxes on the net until the
> 	periodic router announcement is sent.
>
> 	This leads me to believe that either the multicast hash
> 	function is wrong or the request for multicast reception
> 	on the interface is not getting through to the driver.
>
> 	"rtadvd tx0" is running so theoretically it should be getting
> 	through.  Anyone aware of any issues in this area?  Yes the
> 	kernel is a bit old and needs to be updated.

I have had similar problems with tx(4) on FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2, but
unfortunately haven't had time to follow it up yet.

(Just a headsup that this problem may still exist.)

Cheers,

David Adam
zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au