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Bug 509210 - net-wireless/hostapd resets WiFi interface IPv6 addresses on start
Summary: net-wireless/hostapd resets WiFi interface IPv6 addresses on start
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2014-04-30 22:45 UTC by Conrad
Modified: 2014-05-01 05:25 UTC (History)
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Description Conrad 2014-04-30 22:45:05 UTC 
When the wifi interface has an IPv6 address set (via /etc/conf.d/net or manually) the address is deleted after starting hostapd.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ip addr add dev wlan0 fd11:1111:1111:1111::1/64
2. rc-service hostapd restart
3. ip addr show wlan0
Actual Results:  
previously assigned IPv6 address fd11:1111:1111:1111::1 is not available

Expected Results:  
no change to any assigned ip addresses

According to other bug tracker reports this seems to be connected to hostapd restarting the adapter to put it into promiscuous mode.
Comment 1 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-05-01 05:25:53 UTC 
Like the Redhat bug, this is not Gentoo related, so I'm closing this bug.

The right thing to do, is to take it up with the developers of hostapd, and ask them for some way to make it remember the interface configuration, or some other workaround.