Re: if_bridge and IPv6?

From: Andrew Thompson (thompsa_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 08/29/05

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    Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:17:20 +1200
To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org>

    On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 01:17:23PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
    > Hi folks--
    >
    > Can anyone tell me if I should be able to run IPv6 over an if_bridge
    > interface?
     
    The bridge is layer2 so you should be able to use any layer3 protocol.

    > IPv4 seems to work fine over this; I can assign an IPv4 address to
    > bridge0 and everything seems normal. If I assign an IPv6 address to the
    > interface, no IPv6 packets seem to go in or out, and ping6-ing a machine
    > on the same subnet yields:
    >
    > hornet# ping6 other_address
    > PING6(56=40+8+8 nbytes) (net4801_address) --> (other_address)
    > _storelladdr: something odd happens
    > ping6: sendmsg: Invalid argument
    > ping6: wrote tomcat.kitchenlab.org 16 chars, ret=-1
    > nd6_storelladdr: something odd happens
    >

    >From what I can tell this is from the bridge itself, does bridging work
    between ipv6 hosts on either side of the bridge?

    I will try and replicate this setup tonight.

    cheers,
    Andrew
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