[Users] Re: 2.6.18-ovz028test015 and 2.6.18-ovz028test018 break IPv6

Wolfgang Schnerring wosc at wosc.de
Sun Mar 4 01:30:33 EST 2007


* "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at WittsEnd.com>:
> 	This may not be an OpenVZ problem, per se, though.  Some time in the
> very later part of the 2.6.18 kernel.org release updates, a problem was
> introduced that broke IPv6.  Some patch or another caused nodes to fail
> to join the "all nodes multicast" (ff02::1) address.  This is critical
> to IPv6 router discovery and advertisement, neighbor discovery, and
> autoconfiguration.  All fall down go boom.

I've raised that same issue here: http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476

But even though Den Lunev found and backported the upstream patch (I
think from 2.6.20) that fixes the problem, I don't think this ever got into the
OpenVZ repository... any update on this?

Wolfgang



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