Ipv6 - problem with multicast addresses

[Juan Luis Baptiste]

> your IPv6 host sends a sollicitation, the translator answer with an
> advertisement, the IPv6 sends an echo request, the translator replies
> with a destination unreachable (this will be Linux itself I think) but
> the packet gets translated (by click) and so on.
> 
> The only problem there is that for the final reply from translator to
> IPv6: the translator does a neighbor sollicitation from fe80::200...
> which is the link local address. It asks who has 3ffe...:2 but the IPv6
> doesn't respond with an advertisement. Do you receive this sollicitaion
> on your IPv6 machine ? 
> 

I'm not sure, but I think it does, I'll have to check.

> You use a bsd and a linux machine, so that's an extra possible place for
> problems :-).
> 

What do you mean?


> Have you tried to run this in kernel level click (in a previous mail I
> saw you had a patched kernel which wasn't needed for userlevel click I
> think) ?
> 

No, the config files I where using where made for user level only. I would have to change it to work with the kernel module.

> If you don't run click and don't run ipv6 on the translator machine, can
> you sniff the neighbor sollicitation messages from the Ipv6 machine on
> the translator ? (assumed that the routes on the Ipv6 machine are okay)


Will have to test...



Bye, 

Juan Luis

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