Bug 270466

Summary:	ifconfig from sys-apps/net-tools stops showing IPv6 addresses
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433543
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Description Lindsay Haisley 2009-05-19 18:38:50 UTC

See the referenced Debian bug.  I had the same problem with sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20071202044231-r1 and applied the suggested patch, which fixed the problem.  Apparently this hasn't been addressed in Gentoo.

On a system which periodically renews ipv6 interfaces, ifconfig quit showing inet6 address stats for interfaces, as described in this bug, but after applying this fix the problem disappeared.  

Perhaps this patch should also be applied to net-tools in Gentoo.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-08-24 08:43:39 UTC

added patch from Debian to 1.60_p20090728014017