Bug#980507: How to get STP and IPv6

2021-02-23 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi again, Sam! > I suggest you do more testing whenever you can reach the equipment doing a > tcpdump of the traffic so that we know where the problem is, also, take a > look to the firewalling you have just in case igmp or other traffic is being > cut somewhere. I have recently uploaded bridge-u

Bug#980507: How to get STP and IPv6

2021-02-01 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> To clarify one thing about my setup before someone points out it could > cause problems. > I talk about a wifi router. Note that I'm using an ethernet port on the > wifi router, so I have no wifi bridging involved. Well, exept for the part on my setup being free soft that I can play with... you

Bug#980507: How to get STP and IPv6

2021-01-30 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Santiago" == Santiago Garcia Mantinan writes: >> 1) eno1 is connected directly to a wifi router. I get an IPv6 >> address using router advertizements. >> >> But if I insteade slave that interface to a bridge say iface >> brint inet dhcp bridge-ports eno1 auto brint

Bug#980507: How to get STP and IPv6

2021-01-30 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> 1) eno1 is connected directly to a wifi router. > I get an IPv6 address using router advertizements. > > But if I insteade slave that interface to a bridge say > iface brint inet dhcp > bridge-ports eno1 > auto brint > > then I don't get a global v6 address on the bridge. Well, this is kind

Bug#980507: How to get STP and IPv6

2021-01-30 Thread Sam Hartman
The setup that does not work for me (and that I don't currently have access to is) Works: 1) eno1 is connected directly to a wifi router. I get an IPv6 address using router advertizements. But if I insteade slave that interface to a bridge say iface brint inet dhcp bridge-ports eno1 auto brin

Bug#980507: How to get STP and IPv6

2021-01-30 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! > Here's what I've found so far. > https://askubuntu.com/questions/460405/ipv6-does-not-work-over-bridge Ok, I see the problem the guy has but I don't get a clear setup definition, also that was a long long time ago. > This answer suggests that it's IGMP snooping *not* STP that is the > pr

Bug#980507: How to get STP and IPv6

2021-01-25 Thread Sam Hartman
Hi. Here's what I've found so far. https://askubuntu.com/questions/460405/ipv6-does-not-work-over-bridge This answer suggests that it's IGMP snooping *not* STP that is the problem. That makes a lot more sense to me, and has an obvious fix: * Either disable IGMP snooping or * Enable an IGMP qu

Bug#980507: How to get STP and IPv6

2021-01-21 Thread Sam Hartman
Looking into it. --Sam

Bug#980507: How to get STP and IPv6

2021-01-21 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! It was Stephen who put some light on the original bug, as this is quite a kernel thing... > need both. The correct solution is to run DAD after the port has gone > to forwarding. I agree. > Please document how to accomplish this on Linux where you document that > it doesn't work with bridg

Bug#980507: How to get STP and IPv6

2021-01-19 Thread Sam Hartman
package: bridge-utils severity: important version: 1.6-3 justification: breaks actual switches that need v6 In 736336 , you documented that stp breaks ipv6. As was pointed out in the bug report that's kind of bogus. You clearly need both in some situations. As an example, if you are actually ru