On Nov 8, 1:16pm, Jeff Dike wrote:
} Subject: Re: TUN/TAP/UML proxy arp and IPV6 don't like one another.
Good morning Jeff, thanks for the reply.
I've added Willy as a CC to this note to bring him in on the issue.
Willy I'm able to demonstrate a problem with ARP in the 2.4.33.3 which
seems to be related to the presence of IPV6 in the kernel. Details
below.
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 12:08:01PM -0600, greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Environment:
> > 2.4.33.3 host kernel with SKAS3 patch.
> > Stock 2.6.18 UML guest kernel.
> >
> > Host kernel has IPV6 enabled but there are no IPV6 routers
> > active on the subnet. The active eth0 host interface only has
> > a link-local address assigned to it.
> >
> > The host kernel was recompiled with the only change being to drop IPV6
> > from the kernel. Identical guest OS implementation boots and properly
> > pings the same target host on the network.
> So, you're saying that IPV6, even though it is not being used, is
> somehow interfering with normal IPV4 networking?
That seems to be the case. Most specifically the willingness of the
kernel to proxy-ARP for an IPV4 address assigned to the end of a
TUN/TAP interface when IPV6 is enabled in the host kernel.
With everything else held constant removing IPV6 from the host kernel
makes the problem go away.
> > I know 2.4.33.3 is a bit dated so this might be better to bounce off
> > Willy.
> >
> > Thoughts, further suggestions?
> Maybe upgrade and hope the problem goes away. It sounds like this
> should be reproducable without UML, so if you can reproduce this on
> a newer kernel with a smaller test case, that might help get it
> fixed.
I'm including Willy on the mail since if its a regression in the 2.4.x
its probably worth chasing down. 2.6 is nice but we have literally a
ton of 2.4 running for stability reasons.
Willy any thoughts on a test harness for this problem beyond UML? I
have the UML environment we use all bottled up into an RPM with a
reasonably sophisticated startup script. Invoking a UML environment
to validate the bug is basically an RPM install followed by a single
command. I can easily drop the RPM on an FTP server.
> Jeff
Thanks for the input Jeff, best wishes for a productive week.
}-- End of excerpt from Jeff Dike
As always,
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