2010-04-11
With all the IPv6 configuration work som ...
With all the IPv6 configuration work something bothers me in ifconfig, it can still decide to stop showing IPv6 (inet6) addresses:# ifconfig eth0.1 eth0.1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:c6:59:76:f6 inet addr:10.42.2.1 Bcast:10.42.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:17245335 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:17342308 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:10403720060 (9.6 GB) TX bytes:17783892122 (16.5 GB)The addresses are there:# ip -6 addr ls dev eth0.1 3: eth0.1@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 inet6 2001:888:1011::694/64 scope global valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fe80::21f:c6ff:fe59:76f6/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft foreverFiled as Ubuntu bug 560807: ifconfig does not display inet6 addresses.
Update 2010-04-13: Problem source found, diff added to the bugreport.