[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq-2.61 not responding to ipv6 router solicitation requests

[Simon Kelley]

On 21/05/12 18:46, Marien Zwart wrote:
> On ma, 2012-05-21 at 14:37 +0100, Simon Kelley wrote:
>> On 21/05/12 14:14, Marien Zwart wrote:
>>> Unfortunately this has not yet made my dnsmasq respond to router
>>> solicitation requests. Is there some known problem I might be hitting?
>>>
>>
>> 2.62test3 has your fix and a couple of other that are relevant. Does
>> that fix things?
>
> Not quite. The following (on top of 2.62test3) seems to make my dnsmasq
> behave:
>
> --- a/src/radv.c
> +++ b/src/radv.c
> @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
>         return;
>
>     /* weird libvirt-inspired access control */
> -  for (context = daemon->dhcp6; context; context = context->next)
> +  for (context = daemon->ra_contexts; context; context = context->next)
>       if (!context->interface || strcmp(context->interface, interface) ==
> 0)
>         break;
>
>
> (I suspect this mail client mangles the patch a bit, fixing that or
> switching back to a more sensible one is lower on my TODO list. Tiny
> enough change that you can still make it out though, I'm sure.)
>
> but I'm not nearly as sure this doesn't break anything else as I was
> with the previous patch. Still, my dnsmasq does not get past that
> context-finding loop as currently written (as daemon->dhcp6 is NULL).
> Now it's up to someone who knows what that loop is there for to figure
> out how to fix this correctly :)
>
> Thanks for the speedy responses.


The patch is fine except the same fix needs to applied to the multicast 
code in dhcp-common.c

I've push 2.62test4 with this done.


Many thanks for your help with this.



Cheers,

Simon.