Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: net-tools

After an interface has gone down, and the IPv4 address is correctly
gone, the IPv6 is (incorrectly) still there.

See wlan1 interface below: you can still see the IPv6 address.

Correct behaviour should be that the IPv6 would be removed too.


san...@quirinius:~$ ifconfig
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:77:fa:63:e3  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:18 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:11251 (11.2 KB)  TX bytes:11251 (11.2 KB)

wlan1     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:24:2c:6a:54:ab  
          inet6 addr: 2001:83:3a31:0:2324:2ff:fe6a:54ab/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fe80::224:2cff:fe6a:54ab/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:53918 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:43059 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:39854443 (39.8 MB)  TX bytes:7352830 (7.3 MB)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
00-24-2C-6A-54-AB-36-61-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          UP RUNNING  MTU:0  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

san...@quirinius:~$

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 14 20:44:52 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: net-tools 1.60-23ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic-pae
SourcePackage: net-tools
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic-pae i686

** Affects: net-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386

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ipv6 address still there with interface disconnected and IPv4 address gone
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/521861
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