[6bone] Problem with Autoconfiguration when using 802.1Qencapsulation

Jochen Friedrich jochen@scram.de
Mon, 4 Nov 2002 08:29:56 +0100 (CET)


Hi Carlos,

>    I think the problem is that forwarding shoul be disabled in order to use
> stateless autoconfig, look at this example:

>From the kernel:

        if (in6_dev->cnf.forwarding || !in6_dev->cnf.accept_ra) {
                in6_dev_put(in6_dev);
                return;
        }

Linux is definitely only accepting RAs, if both accept_ra is 1 and
forwarding is 0 for a particular interface.

--jochen