Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.4, 2.4.4-ac1, 2.4.4-ac2, neighbour discovery bug (ipv6)

From: Cliff Albert (cliff@oisec.net)
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 04:53:58 EST


On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:56:20PM +0200, poptix wrote:

> >
> > When i traceroute6 my 2.4.4 box on my local lan, the 2.4.4 box panic's after about 10 seconds. The traceroute6 completes on the other box.
> >
> > 2.4.3-ac14 doesn't experience these problems. Only 2.4.4 (with or without ac{1,2}) panics
> >
> > ---- traceroute6 output ----
> > traceroute to neve.oisec.net (3ffe:8114:2000:0:250:bfff:fe21:629a) from 3ffe:8114:2000:0:210:4bff:feb3:1fb4, 30 hops max, 16 byte packets
> > 1 neve.oisec.net (3ffe:8114:2000:0:250:bfff:fe21:629a) 0.583 ms 0.278 ms 0.233 ms
> >
> >
> [snip]
>
> I am unable to reproduce this, either locally or remotely, I am also using
> the 2.4.4 kernel, do you have any more information on this, and is it
> possible to reproduce every time?

Was reproducable every single time, on multiple machines. a simple PING6 or TRACEROUTE6 would kill the box. Using native connection or tunneled connection doesn't matter after some investigation.

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