On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:52:02AM -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote:
Filed some bug reports, and it was evident from the response that very, very few Linux users ever go> 4 eth's on a system. Thus the lack of properly debugged IPv6 support for that then. Fortunately I don't (yet) need IPv6. When I do, it'll be curious to see if the bug is still there.
I've got six machines with 6 Gb interfaces (two on motherboard, 4 on a card) right now (the design called for 3 bonded pairs on separate nets for redundancy). I haven't tried IPV6 on them. I had 'issues' with bonding and VMs though.
My trouble didn't involve bonding or VMs, just using 5 interfaces at once (dual-homed WAN, DMZ, LAN, direct crossover failover backup). Having IPv6 turned on was screwing up using more than 4 for IPv4. Suspect it was a kernel limitation that in likelihood is since fixed.
Whit