[Linux-HA] ipv6 config question

[Andrew Beekhof]

On 10/12/07, Scott Machtmes <scottm at brocade.com> wrote:
> perhaps not. The only thing I could find was:
>
>   start:
>   *      1.IPv6addr will choice a proper interface for the new address.
>   *      2.Then assign the new address to the interface.
>   *      3.Wait until the new address is available (reply ICMPv6 ECHO
> packet)
>   *      4.Send out the unsolicited advertisements.

nod, according to the meta_data_addr6() function it only takes the address.

presumably someone would need to patch scan_if() or, even better,
rewrite the agent as a shell which would be easier to tweak

not volunteering are you? :-)


> Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> > On 10/12/07, Scott Machtmes <scottm at brocade.com> wrote:
> >> I have heartbeat 2.08 on a 2 node active/passive cluster. It's working
> >> fine. Now I'm trying to add an IPv6 address to managed and failed over
> >> as well. I'd like the ipv6 addr to be on the eth0:0 where the ip public
> >> address gets configured. I can't get that to happen. As a test on the
> >> command line I'm doing:
> >>
> >>   /etc/ha.d/resource.d/IPv6addr fd00:60:69bc:50::101/64/eth0 start
> >>
> >> The addr does start but ipv6addr is always putting the address on the
> >> eth1 interface( which in my case is my private heartbeat network).
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >
> > is NIC one of the RA's parameters?
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