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Bug #9039

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radvd (IPv6) is broken on systems with a USB ethernet interface

Added by TJ Synkral about 6 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
IPv6 Router Advertisements (radvd/rtsold)
Target version:
-
Start date:
10/12/2018
Due date:
% Done:

0%

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Release Notes:
Affected Version:
2.4.4
Affected Architecture:

Description

Bug 8429 addressed the regression that was introduced in 2.4.3 causing an error message such as "ioctl(SIOCGIFMEDIA) failed on ue0: Invalid argument" to be logged by radvd for ethernet interfaces (usb, bridge) which don't have SIOCGIFMEDIA properties.

I hoped the fix to bug 8429 which was originally reported by a user having problems with a bridge would also fix my USB ethernet problems (which I did mention in the bug discussion), but it did not. The fix corrected bridges but ignored USB ethernet devices.

As a result, in 2.4.4 I still cannot use IPv6.

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Updated by Jim Pingle over 5 years ago

  • Category set to IPv6 Router Advertisements (radvd/rtsold)
  • Status changed from New to Rejected

That's an OS or radvd upstream bug. Nothing we can do about it. We strongly discourage the use of USB ethernet interfaces.

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