Subject: Re: hme ethernet interface and IPv6 problem
To: None <port-sparc64@netbsd.org>
From: Jarle Greipsland <jarle@uninett.no>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 07/23/2002 16:07:32
Some time ago, I wrote:
> I've just recently discovered that the IPv6 address discovery
> does no longer work on my Ultra 5/hme network interface.  The log
> messages are like:
> hme0: DAD detected duplicate IPv6 address xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:0a00:20ff:fed1:50b4: NS in/out=1/1, NA in=0
> hme0: DAD complete for xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:0a00:20ff:fed1:50b4 - duplicate found
> hme0: manual intervention required

I just now discovered that the hme network interface seems to
return duplicates of all outgoing packets when in promiscious
mode.  If I run tcpdump locally on the Ultra 5, and ping the
system from another host, tcpdump prints two copies of each 'echo
reply' packet.  Could this behavior explain why the IPv6 stack
thinks that the hme interface has a duplicated IPv6 address?

					-jarle