Re: [netbsd4.0]could you tell me why NetBSD did not send link-local NS when NetBSD rebooted.

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:14:25PM +0800, wang_jiabo wrote:

>  could you tell me why NetBSD did not send link-local NS when NetBSD
> rebooted.
> I add ip6mode=autohost in /etc/rc.conf and add up in ifconfig.<IF> file

Works for me - I've just tested it with NetBSD/i386 4.0.1 (caution - wide!):

08:05:11.599259 00:50:ba:80:0e:40 > 33:33:ff:80:0e:40, ethertype IPv6 (0x86dd), 
length 78: :: > ff02::1:ff80:e40: icmp6: neighbor sol: who has 
fe80::250:baff:fe80:e40
08:05:12.221896 00:50:ba:80:0e:40 > 33:33:00:00:00:02, ethertype IPv6 (0x86dd), 
length 70: fe80::250:baff:fe80:e40 > ff02::2: icmp6: router solicitation 
08:05:12.604434 00:d0:b7:75:c0:2c > 33:33:00:00:00:01, ethertype IPv6 (0x86dd), 
length 110: fe80::2d0:b7ff:fe75:c02c > ff02::1: icmp6: router advertisement
08:05:12.661833 00:50:ba:80:0e:40 > 33:33:ff:80:0e:40, ethertype IPv6 (0x86dd), 
length 78: :: > ff02::1:ff80:e40: icmp6: neighbor sol: who has 
2001:638:403:5050:250:baff:fe80:e40
08:05:14.901969 00:50:ba:80:0e:40 > 33:33:00:00:00:02, ethertype IPv6 (0x86dd), 
length 70: fe80::250:baff:fe80:e40 > ff02::2: icmp6: router solicitation 
08:05:15.839241 00:d0:b7:75:c0:2c > 33:33:00:00:00:01, ethertype IPv6 (0x86dd), 
length 110: fe80::2d0:b7ff:fe75:c02c > ff02::1: icmp6: router advertisement

What is in your ifconfig.<IF> ? What is IF? Does it show up in the
boot messages? How did you try to detect the NS packet?

Regards,
        -is