Re: [ipv6] Odd behaviour...

[pomac]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:27:29AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2008 00:58:30 +0200 Ian Kumlien <pomac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > I just recently acquired a new ipv6 tunnel since my two previous brokers
> > has gone out of business. I now use hurricane electrics tunnel since i
> > have really good ping times to it's node in Amsterdam.
> > 
> > Anyways, i have setup a local network tunnel and enabled forwarding.
> > 
> > After about 300 seconds, it all stops working. I have to disable and
> > re-enable it on the firewall/router to get it working again.
> > 
> > tcpdump shows the router/firewall doing odd things like:
> > (i renamed my host to piv6)
> > 
> > 00:48:14.294173 IP6 piv6 > igloo.stacken.kth.se: ICMP6, echo request,
> > seq 321, length 64
> > 
> > 00:48:14.341288 IP6 igloo.stacken.kth.se > piv6: ICMP6, echo reply, seq
> > 321, length 64
> > 
> > 00:48:14.341317 IP6 fe80::55e4:1b90 > igloo.stacken.kth.se: ICMP6,
> > redirect, piv6 to piv6, length 160
> > 
> > 00:48:14.341332 IP6 igloo.stacken.kth.se > piv6: ICMP6, echo reply, seq
> > 321, length 64
> > ---
> > 
> > fe80::55e4::1b90 is the local ip of the ipv6 tunnel.
> > (note: the packet never arrives at it's destination)
> > 
> > Any ideas of what could be going wrong?			
> 
> (cc netdev - afaik linux-net is kind of dead)

Thanks, i knew i missed something, -net was the one that was already in
my email client so... =)

> What kernel version are you running?

The router/fw is running 2.6.25.1, the client is running 2.6.25.4

Any additional information i should provide?

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