Bug#1035395: wide-dhcpv6-client does not recover if the network layer becomes unready.

I’ve been running with the patch to dhcp6c.c for a while 1378,1381d1377 < /* <* failed send. Possible change of interface id per Bug#1035395 <* Try reseting and resend <*/ 1384,1398d1379 < if (ifreset(ifp)) { <

Bug#1035395: wide-dhcpv6-client does not recover if the network layer becomes unready.

I was being annoyed by this bug today. It doesn’t happen often but I suspect when patching the ppp daemon or ISP changes the ppp interface gets a new ID. strace -p 294339 strace: Process 294339 attached select(7, [4 6], NULL, NULL, {tv_sec=92, tv_usec=146932}) = 0 (Timeout) sendto(4,

Bug#1035395: wide-dhcpv6-client does not recover if the network layer becomes unready.

Package: wide-dhcpv6-client Version: 20080615-23 Severity: important Tags: ipv6 X-Debbugs-Cc: philleins...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? If the network layer becomes unready, or the