Hello, On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:20:55 +0200 Bernhard Schmidt <be...@birkenwald.de> wrote:
> Package: ifupdown
> Version: 0.7~alpha4
> Severity: normal
> Tags: experimental
>
> ifdown executes 'ip addr flush dev $DEV', but does not set the link
> layer to down using "ip link set eth0 down". This flushes the IPv6
> link-local address from the interface, which essentially disables all
> IPv6 on it until you manually add the link local address again. It
> will even disappear from the net.ipv6.conf.$DEV tree, which means the
> next ifup with a static inet6-stanza will fail with
>
> error: "net.ipv6.conf.eth0.accept_ra" is an unknown key
> Failed to bring up eth0.
>
> Please execute "ip link set $DEV down" on ifdown.
Mmmm, but it does:
down
ip -6 addr flush dev %iface% scope global
ip link set dev %iface% down
Can you provide some more details?
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WBR, Andrew
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