ifconfig not seeing IPv6 in x86 jail

[Mars G. Miro]

On 6/14/2012 5:21 AM, Jamie Gritton wrote:
> A PR sounds appropriate if it's not doing what it should. Just to be
> sure: this is an x86 jail on an x86 system? I want to make sure it's
> a jail issue and not a 32-bit emulation issue.
>
> - Jamie
>
>


It's an x86 jail on an amd64 host.


> On 06/12/12 06:32, Mars G. Miro wrote:
>> Hi Guys
>>
>> I've just noticed this now, and I usually build jails (including x86
>> jails for my x86 systems) for custom-building my base and ports, for
>> pkg_add'ing later. It works great(!), and I've done this evar since
>> we've been able to cross-build.
>>
>> It seems that ifconfig doesn't see the IPv6 address in an x86 jail ?
>>
>> mars at spry832x86:~> sysctl security.jail.jailed
>> security.jail.jailed: 1
>>
>> mars at spry832x86:~> ifconfig
>> bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
>> 1500
>>
>> options=8009b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE>
>>
>> ether 00:22:19:17:e5:9a
>> inet 172.17.83.2 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.17.83.2
>> nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
>> bge1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>>
>> options=8009b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE>
>>
>> ether 00:22:19:17:e5:9b
>> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>> options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
>>
>>
>> But I know I'm on IPv6:
>>
>> mars at spry832x86:~> w
>> 8:28PM up 8 days, 6:27, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>> USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
>> mars pts/4 2001:470:XXX:2400 8:27PM - w
>>
>> mars at spry832x86:~> uname -a
>> FreeBSD spry832x86 8.3-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Jun 4
>> 13:32:10 PHT 2012 root at panzer.XXX:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PANZER i386
>> mars at spry832x86:~>
>>
>> I checked on FreeBSD 8.2 and it's the same. I've yet to check on 9.X tho.
>>
>> Is this worth a PR ?
>>
>> Thanks.


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