In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:24:35 +0200), Olaf Kirch 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:

> When the Xen code configures the bridge device, this will do IPv6
> autoconfiguration for the interface, and since they use synthetic MAC
> addresses, there will be DAD collisions.
:
> The attached tentative patch makes IPv6 autoconf depend on the
> availability of IFF_MULTICAST. This is admittedly a bit of a hack, but
> it makes sense, since DAD and router solicitation do rely on multicast.

I disagree.  The node MUST NOT assign live address on
that interface.

Further analysis is needed, but one idea is to skip
addrconf_dev_config() if !(dev->flags & IFF_MULTICAST).

--yoshfuji

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