lucid: multicast RA starvation
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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radvd (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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radvd (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Lucid |
Won't Fix
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: radvd
After upgrading an IPv6 router from karmic to lucid-rc, all hosts (several Linux and OS X boxes) on the internal net lose external IPv6 connectivity after 30 minutes.
A little debugging with radvdump dump showed that radvd stops sending multicasts router advertisements after the first few packages => clients lose there default route after the AdvDefaultLifetime setting (default 1800 seconds).
Apparently this is a known bug (http://
I've built Debian's radvd 1.6 package for lucid now (see https:/
Everything works fine with this version: radvdump shows no signs of RA starvation and clients keep there external IPv6 connectivity.
As this problem potentially will affect a lot of people using IPv6, I'd suggest updating radvd to 1.6 for the final lucid release.
tags: | added: regression-potential |
Changed in radvd (Ubuntu Lucid): | |
milestone: | none → lucid-updates |
Changed in radvd (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
I moved from a Debian-based firewall/router to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and was bit by this bug. Jürgen's new package is working properly for me.