[radvd-devel-l] Solicited Router Advertisements not coming when the test asks for them.

[Pekka Savola]

Hello,

Could you clarify which radvd version you're testing?  There were 
changes to this behaviour in 1.3; if you tested this, do you see the 
same behaviour with 1.2?

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Ninad wrote:
> I am running radvd daemon for ipv6 ready tests,
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> but I am not getting radvd solicited router advertisements.
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> I debugged the code in gdb and found that the problem was
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> the destination address was not getting set to à all nodes/hosts multicast address i.e
> ff02::1.
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> The problem I faced is à
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> In the file send.c  , in the routine send_ra() Line 114/115
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> There is one condition
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> if ( dest == NULL )
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>     115         {
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>     116                 struct timeval tv;
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>     117
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>     118                 dest = (struct in6_addr *)all_hosts_addr;
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>     119                 gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
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>     120
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>     121                 iface->last_multicast_sec = tv.tv_sec;
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>     122                 iface->last_multicast_usec = tv.tv_usec;
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>     123         }
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> Even if my dest. is NULL and source address is unspecified( :: )  
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> This condition is not fulfilled and so solicited router advertisements are not sent.
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> I changed the condition to
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> if ( dest == NULL || dest != NULL )
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> for specific tests which were depending on solicited router advertisements
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> and the things started working fine. My Tests are passing.
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> But the question is First of all why I need to change the code and get solicited router
> advertisements.
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> Why the original condition was not getting satisfied ?
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> Thanks
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