Re: [ipv6] Odd behaviour...

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明]

In article <20080529100822.GF11812@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Thu, 29 May 2008 12:08:22 +0200), pomac@xxxxxxxxx says:

> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 06:28:53PM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote:
> > In article <20080529084157.GD11812@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Thu, 29 May 2008 10:41:57 +0200), pomac@xxxxxxxxx says:
> > 
> > > 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?
> > 
> > How do you assign the address?
> 
> On the router/fw there is a sit tunnel thats started with 'ip'.
> 
> The clients get their addresses by radvd which only uses a local
> interface on the router/fw...

Please draw w a network topology figure.

--yoshfuji
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