[Olsr-dev] BUG report IPv6 interface change not detected

[Rogge Henning]

The configuration of the IPv6 addresses have changed between 0.5.6-r8 and the current stable (which will become 0.6.0). Please see into the "full" config file in the current stable for the updated documentation.

Henning Rogge

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: (spam-protected) 
> [mailto:(spam-protected)] Im Auftrag von 
> Gioacchino Mazzurco
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. April 2010 10:59
> An: (spam-protected)
> Betreff: Re: [Olsr-dev] BUG report IPv6 interface change not detected
> 
> hey all
>  
> tonight i found that documentation is broken!
>  
> ip6type site-locale/global ( sorry i am on windows at 
> university now i cant write the exact property name ) is not 
> implemented and the configuration parser tell that is a 
> sybtax error while it is documented on man in r8
>  
> the solution is to use
>  
> ip6source interface_ip6_to use ( sorry i am on windows at 
> university now i cant write the exact property name ) that is 
> undocumented but implemented after some test it seems to 
> work, i'll be more sure after a lot of testing
>  
> ip6source is also more useful because permit to use a 
> specified address also if you have more address of the same 
> type, at moment it seems to work but i can't tell it for sure 
> because i have done only some test tonight, and because the 
> randomly selecting of address without this option...
>  
> another thing to test is if we can use multiple ip6source, 
> someone ( not me :P ) could need to use olsr on more than one 
> ipaddress of the interface
> 
> 
> 2010/4/20 Rogge Henning <(spam-protected)>
> 
> 
> 	I will try to look at the problem tomorrow evening.
> 	
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> 	> ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto)
> 	> Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. April 2010 10:21
> 	> An: (spam-protected)
> 	> Cc: (spam-protected)
> 	> Betreff: Re: [Olsr-dev] BUG report IPv6 interface 
> change not detected
> 	
> 	>
> 	> > I can reproduce this bug...
> 	> >
> 	> > please fix it
> 	>
> 	> Well, I told Gioacchino to post here, but he has been 
> a little "short"
> 	> in his description :)
> 	>
> 	> He also noticed that if you have two IPv6 addresses
> 	> configured on the same interface, OLSR picks at random one of
> 	> the two addresses and there is no way to specify which one
> 	> you want to use as the main address.
> 	>
> 	> The point is that it happens I have Ninux people pointing to
> 	> me OLSR bugs or feature requests. Most of the time is
> 	> configuration issues, I solve my self, but now Giocchino is
> 	> working a lot on IPv6 setups and seems he found real bugs.
> 	>
> 	> Are we using a bug tracker with tickets or we rely only on
> 	> the mailing list for bugs ?
> 	>
> 	> We should think about that, otherwise Gioacchino is going to
> 	> look for you devs at the BattleMesh with his laptop in his
> 	> hands asking for his bugs fixed desperately, and that is
> 	> going to be very funny ahahah :) I can't wait for the 
> BattleMesh :))))
> 	>
> 	> Saverio
> 	>
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