Re: dc interface only receives ip6 route solicitations in promiscious mode?

[Otto Moerbeek <otto_(_at_)_drijf_(_dot_)_net>]

On Sunday, May 18, 2003, at 09:30 Europe/Amsterdam, Otto Moerbeek wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Running ipv6 on 3.3-stable (router) and 3.3-current (client) I have a 
> problem getting responses to route solicitations. It seems that route 
> advertisements are only processed if the receiving dc interface is in 
> promiscuous mode.
>
> The router runs rtadv on dc0, the client rtsold on sis0.
>
> If I do not run tcpdump on dc0 on the router, the client does not get 
> responses to its route solicitations. If I do run tcpdump on dc0 on 
> the router, without changing anything else, everything is OK.

Just did an extra test:

Running tcpdump in non-promiscious mode (-p) shows no incoming route 
solicitations on dc0. So it looks like the incoming packets are dropped 
by the card or the dc interface.

	-Otto