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Bug 417529 - net-misc/networkmanager-0.9.4.0-r2 fights the kernel over the ipv6 route, resetting the interface every half hour
Summary: net-misc/networkmanager-0.9.4.0-r2 fights the kernel over the ipv6 route, res...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2012-05-25 21:34 UTC by Marien Zwart (RETIRED)
Modified: 2012-07-04 07:57 UTC (History)
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Description Marien Zwart (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-05-25 21:34:00 UTC 
On recent kernels (3.3 and up) networkmanager-0.9.4 and the kernel fight over the default route on a network on which ipv6 router advertisements are present (from radvd or a recent dnsmasq, for example). This causes it (here, at least) to bring the interface down and back up every half hour, which is somewhat disruptive. It's fixed upstream via http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=77de91e5a8b1c1993ae65c54b37e0411e78e6fe6 , which fixes it on my network, was picked up by debian and referenced from a fedora bug. This seems worth applying (esp. before any gentoo-sources more recent than 3.2 goes stable).
Comment 1 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-07-04 07:57:02 UTC 
Fixed, thanks for reporting. Sorry for the delay!

>*networkmanager-0.9.4.0-r3 (04 Jul 2012)
>
>  04 Jul 2012; Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@gentoo.org>
>  +files/01-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system.rules,
>  -networkmanager-0.9.4.0-r1.ebuild, +networkmanager-0.9.4.0-r3.ebuild,
>  -files/networkmanager-0.9.4.0-force-libnl1.1.patch,
>  +files/networkmanager-0.9.4.0-ipv6-route.patch:
>  Fix default ipv6 route issue on some networks (bug #417529, thanks to Marien
>  Zwart). Install polkit-1/rules.d file for polkit-0.106 support (bug #421577,
>  thanks to Samuli Suominen). Add epatch_user to make it easier for users to
>  locally patch networkmanager. Drop old.