Re: Couple of IPv6 Questions.

From: David Malone (dwmalone_at_maths.tcd.ie)
Date: 05/28/03 

Date: 28 May 2003 09:41:16 +0100

Brian Haley <Brian.Haley@nospam_hp.com> writes:

># netstat -N

>I'll add that to my list of documentation that needs updating.

That's it.

>The problem is that neither machine has a route to the v6 "network"
>associated with the addresses you added (check netstat -rnf inet6).

Ahhh - right - I'm used to KAME where you have to give a prefix
length when configuring an interface or give the address of the
other end of a point-to-point link, so you always end up with a
route automagically. The route command you gave fixed my problem.

>The IPv6 output errors are probably going up on each system:

># netstat -p ipv6
>...
> 21 packets not transmitted due to error
>...

Curiously, netstat -p doesn't show this statistic on the version
of Tru64 I'm using (I had checked for some statistic like this).
Sample output included below.

        David.

# netstat -p ipv6
ipv6:
        17761 packets received
           0 on idle interface
           0 with size smaller than minimum
           0 with data size < payload length
           0 with bad version
           1427 with non-optimal alignment
           17750 packets with local destination
           9459 packets with multicast destination
           6 packets which require forwarding
           5 packets with tentative destination (dropped)
           0 to an unknown protocol
        17750 packets successfully delivered
        0 packets discarded due to error
        0 packets caused an ICMPv6 error to be sent
        Transmitted:
           4746 packets locally sourced
           0 packets due to forwarding
           0 packets needing fragmentation
           29 multicasts (21 looped back)
        0 exceeded interface output quota
        Fragmentation:
           8 packets fragmented
           22 fragments sent
        Reassembly:
           20 fragments received
           7 packets reassembled
        Forwarding:
           0 packets forwarded

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