[Users] Re: 2.6.18-ovz028test015 and 2.6.18-ovz028test018 break
IPv6
Kirill Korotaev
dev at sw.ru
Mon Mar 5 03:35:59 EST 2007
Wolfgang Schnerring wrote:
> * "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?
As I wrote in the bug, it is fixed in 028test019
028test018 was released earlier and was in testing for some time,
so could not accumulate this patch.
Thanks,
Kirill
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