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Bug #14756

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Link loss causes interfaces configured as Track Interface for IPv6 to lose their IPv4 addresses

Added by Steve Wheeler over 1 year ago. Updated about 1 year ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Interfaces
Target version:
Start date:
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
Plus Target Version:
23.09
Release Notes:
Default
Affected Version:
2.7.0
Affected Architecture:
All

Description

An interface configured as 'Track Interface' for IPv6 will lose it's static IPv4 address if the NIC link is brought down.
This means that services configured to run on it will fail.

This prevents service restarts when the link is bounced in particular package restarts by rc.newwanip. In many cases this is actually the preferred behaviour since these are not WAN interfaces.

Sine this is the default LAN config it hides issues due to service restarts in that situation.

Whether or not the behaviour is preferred should not happen, the interface should not lose it's v4 address.

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