Bug#398595: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#398595: IPv6 is unusable with the network-bridge script

[Bastian Blank]

reassign 398595 xen-utils-common
severity 398595 normal
thanks

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 02:08:34PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> After installing Xen and setting up 
>   (network-script 'network-bridge netdev=eth0')

This is not the default setting.

> I no longer have a sane IPv6 address in the dom0:
>   inet6 2001:700:300:d03f:fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 scope global dynamic valid_lft 2591977sec preferred_lft 604777sec
> This is probably since xenbr0 has a MAC address of
> fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff; in any case, it completely breaks IPv6 until I remove
> it, turn off autoconfiguration and set up a manual address (which is a
> pain when you move around a bit).

The bridge gets it mac from the first assigned interface or so.

Bastian

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