[Xorp-users] xorp RIPng

[Hansi]

On Nov 15, 2007 9:23 AM, Pavlin Radoslavov <pavlin at icir.org> wrote:
> Hansi <hantongs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 15, 2007 1:52 AM, Pavlin Radoslavov <pavlin at icir.org> wrote:
> > > > Replacing the global address with the link-local IPv6 address provides
> > > > the same results. No peerings between two XORP machines w/ RIPng
> > > > enabled are established. Attached is the configuration file used.
> > > >
> > > > Also, I managed to do a trace as you instructed to:
> > > >
> > > > 2:33:20<root at demo_rtr :/usr/local/xorp/bin>)#less typescript | grep
> > > > "socket6_user"
> > > > "typescript" may be a binary file.  See it anyway? y
> > > >
> > > > [ 2007/11/14 02:28:57 INFO xorp_fea XRL ] Resolving
> > > > xrl:finder://ripng-775637ed507ee002ab82dd3f24333ee1@127.0.0.1/socket6_user/0.1/recv_event?sockid:txt=00000000-000032e1-000ab21c-063b0000&src_host:ipv6=fe80::215:f2ff:fe3d:ac91&src_port:u32=521&data:binary=%01%01%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%10
> > >
> > > OK, the above indicates that the FEA has received and forwarded the
> > > UDP packet to the RIPng module.
> > >
> > > After you started using the link-local addresses in your
> > > configuration what is the output of "show ripng peer statistics all"
> > > xorpsh command? It should show something like:
> > >
> >
> > Yes, I did. But it displays "There are no peers" or something like
> > that which indicates that no peerings has been established.
>
> That's odd.
> What FreeBSD version are you using?

I'm also using FreeBSD-6.2 on an amd64 architecture.
>
> It worked for me between FreeBSD-6.2 (amd64) and FreeBSD-4.10.
> If it still doesn't work for you, start with my configuration I sent
> in the previous email, but double-check that the local IPv6 address
> inside your ripng configuration indeed matches the link-local
> address on each host.
>
> This is a show-stopper and if they don't peer then the rest won't
> work.
>

Yes, indeed. The reason why I can't move forward. Nevertheless, I'll
keep you posted. :)

Thanks,
Hansi

> Pavlin
>
>
> > > user at hostname> show ripng peer statistics all
> > >
> > > * RIP statistics for peer fe80::xxxx:xxxx on rl0 rl0 fe80::yyyy:yyyy
> > >
> > >   Last Active at Wed Nov 14 09:40:37 2007
> > >
> > >   Counter                                     Value
> > >   -------------------------------- ----------------
> > >   Total Packets Received                          6
> > >   Request Packets Received                        1
> > >   Update Packets Received                         5
> > >   Bad Packets Received                            0
> > >   Bad Routes Received                             5
> > >   Routes Active                                   0
>