Re: if_bridge and IPv6?

From: Max Laier (max_at_love2party.net)
Date: 08/30/05

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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:01:06 +0200

    On Monday 29 August 2005 23:37, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
    > If memory serves me right, Andrew Thompson wrote:
    > > From what I can tell this is from the bridge itself, does bridging work
    > > between ipv6 hosts on either side of the bridge?
    >
    > Hmm...I haven't tried that yet. Unfortunately I'm not in close
    > proximity to the system in question at the moment, so it'll be a few
    > hours (evening, San Francisco time) until I can try this. I'll test and
    > report back.
    >
    > > I will try and replicate this setup tonight.
    >
    > Many thanks!

    Just a quick note: if_bridge does IPv6 filtering (in contrast to the old
    bridge code). So you may want to check your settings there.

    > Bruce.
    >
    > PS. Food for thought: Should bridge devices have IFF_MULTICAST set?
    > Mine doesn't.
    >
    > hornet# ifconfig bridge0
    > bridge0: flags=41<UP,RUNNING> mtu 1500
    > inet (foo) netmask 0xffffff00
    > inet6 (bar) prefixlen 64
    > ether ac:de:48:cd:e2:32
    > priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20
    > member: sis1 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
    > member: sis0 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER> 

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