[parisc-linux] Re: IPv6 Sparc64

[Jochen Friedrich]

Hi Sten,

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Sten wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Jochen Friedrich wrote:
> 
> > > I have been trying to get ipv6 to work
> > > on sparc64/kernel 2.4 but it looks like it
> > > is broken somewhere in the kernel.
> > > I was wondering if this was a known problem.
> >
> > > [root@towel ip]# ping6 ::1
> > > PING ::1(::1) from ::1 : 56 data bytes
> >
> > It's the same on PARISC. However, on PARISC, although ping6 doesn't work,
> > telnet etc do work, as well as pinging the PARISC box from an Intel or
> > Alpha machine.
> 
> The reason I ask this is because I have been trying to setup a
> tunnel, and I cant get it to work either with ifconfig or iproute.
> 
> [root@towel ip]# ip tunnel add blink mode sit remote x.x.x.x dev
> eth0
> ioctl: Invalid argument

At least on PARISC, this turned out to be an glibc issue. With the latest 
glibc from debian unstable, ping6 is now working OK:

# ping6 -n www.kame.net
PING www.kame.net(3ffe:501:4819:2000:203:47ff:fea5:3257) from 
3ffe:400:470:4:a00:9ff:fe17:ca3d : 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 3ffe:501:4819:2000:203:47ff:fea5:3257: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 
time=592
ms
64 bytes from 3ffe:501:4819:2000:203:47ff:fea5:3257: icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 
time=609
ms

--- www.kame.net ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 2 received, 33% loss, time 2022ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 592.367/601.114/609.862/8.781 ms
 
Cheers,
Jochen