On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Doug Hardie<bc...@lafn.org> wrote: > I have found what to me seems like a bug with ICMPv6 handling in IPv6. > However, before submitting a PR I wanted to check to be sure that its not a > misunderstanding on my part. > > The network setup. A host (A) connected to a router (B) connected to > another host (C) on a separate network. When all are up and running, A can > ping6 to C and gets a response. If you power off C and then do the ping > again, tpcdump on A shows an ICMPv6 destination unreachable datagram > received from B. However ping6 does not report that back to the user. A > ktrace of ping6 shows that it does not receive the ICMPv6 response. Its my > understanding that it should and the ping6 code seems to imply that also. Is > this a bug? > _______________________________________________
What version of FreeBSD are you using ? Did you try the -v parameter to ping6 to display non-echo responses ? (man ping6) In a similar test I ran, I was able to get the icmp6 host unreachable message from ping6 -v on my FreeBSD 7.2 box. (I pinged a non-existent address/machine off an upstream router) uname -a FreeBSD dhorn-bsd 7.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Jun 24 00:57:44 UTC 2009 r...@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 dh...@dhorn-bsd:~> ping6 -v 2001:470:7:584::3 PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2001:470:8:584:20e:cff:xxxx:xxxx --> 2001:470:7:584::3 64 bytes from 2001:470:7:584::1: Destination Host Unreachable Vr TC Flow Plen Nxt Hlim 6 00 00000 0010 3a 3e 2001:470:8:584:20e:cff:xxxx:xxxx->2001:470:7:584::3 ICMP6: type = 128, code = 0 The other thing to potentially look at would be firewall rules, but that is unlikely if you can see the icmp6 response in tcpdump. Good Luck. --Dave _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"