Re: PATCH: Re-add IPv6 link-local addr after disconnecting VPN

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 20:14 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> When disconnecting from a VPN  (in my case VPNC), NetworkManager flushes
> all addresses from the physical device. Tracing it showed it doing:
> 
>   ip route del default
>   ip addr flush dev eth1
>   ip route flush dev eth1
>   ip neigh flush all
> 
> This of course also blows away all the IPv6 addresses, including the 
> link-local address required for stateless autoconf. The attached patch
> against the 0.7.0 svn3138 snapshot used in Fedora 8 simply re-adds the
> IPv6 link-local address after taking down the VPN connection. This
> allows IPv6 autoconf to do its magic and restore connectivity.
> 
> This problem is also reported & unresolved in the Fedora BZ
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=233757

Thanks; I checked and it's been fixed in a slightly different way in SVN
already.  So it should get in the next SVN drop.

Dan