Copying Francois Romieu: * David Monro <dav...@davidmonro.net> [2008-12-13 01:00]: > I seem to have exactly the same issue on a normal PC > > *motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-MA78GPM-DS2H > > *lspci reports > 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. > RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) > > * kernel messages: > [ 1.331851] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK-NAPI loaded > [ 1.331851] eth0: RTL8168c/8111c at 0xffffc2000062c000, > 00:1f:d0:9b:88:5d, XID 3c4000c0 IRQ 1278 > [ 20.968195] r8169: eth0: link up > [ 20.970312] r8169: eth0: link up > [ 31.939540] eth0: no IPv6 routers present > > * kernel is linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 2.6.26-11 (current lenny kernel) > > Symptoms are consistent with broken multicast; it doesn't autoconfigure > ipv6 addresses and claims there is no router present, and manually > configuring the ipv6 address allows the computer to connect out to other > ipv6 machines, but if it has been idle on the network for a while, other > machines can't connect to it (but can connect on ipv4) presumably > because it doesn't hear the neighbour solicitation requests. > > Setting allmulti on the interface seems to solve it for now, so I've > just got that as a post-up in /etc/network/interfaces, but *ick*. > > Is this ever going to be fixed??
I'm not sure if Francois Romieu has made any progress with this. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
