IPv6 router advertisement

[Ted Lemon]

On May 6, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Mihai Moldovan wrote:
> So the question in charge basically is why RA does not work on my
> Laptop, but on Windows XP. I've thought of wrong settings in sysctl,  
> but
> everything is fine, and disabling RA kernel-wise using any options  
> seems
> not to be possible either, so it doesn't seem to be a configuration  
> problem.

So what are the sysctl settings for net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_ra and  
net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_ra_defrtr?   And what about for the same  
variables that are specific to the interface?   Do you get a default  
route if you plug the same machine into a /64 network with the same RA  
settings?   Also, you didn't answer this question:

On May 5, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Mihai Moldovan wrote:
>       AdvRouterAddr off;

Why is AdvRouterAddr off?

Given the symptoms you're describing, my working theory is that  
Microsoft's autoconf implementation is synthesizing the default route  
using the source address of the RA message, and Linux is not.   I  
suspect the Linux behavior is more compliant with the protocol spec,  
although I'm sure if this theory is correct that Microsoft had a good  
reason for doing what they did.