[ubuntu-uk] IPv6 RA Not Working

[Jon Farmer]

On 9 September 2011 19:45, Andy Smith <andy at strugglers.net> wrote:

> There are many things that don't work the same in v6 compared to
> v4...
>
> I don't use ufw so am not sure what it might do, but common reasons
> for RA not working are:
>
> - Your host has IPv6 forwarding enabled so won't listen to RA by
>  default
> - You've blocked ICMPv6 router-advertisement inbound and/or ICMPv6
>  router-solicitation outbound.
>
> Could either of those be the case?

No and no. If you flush ip6tables you don't get an address via RA. If
you enable ufw you do.

Regards

Jon