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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bridge: leave carrier on for empty bridge
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 10:57:35 -0700
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The root cause of the problem is applications that don't deal with unresolved
IPv6 addresses. I already had to solve this in our distribution for NTP in a
not bridge related problem. It is better to fix the applications to understand
IPv6 address semantics than to try and force bridge to behave in a way that
is friendly to these applications.

The earlier mail said it is a problem with dnsmasq and radvd. Let's work on understanding
if they need to be updated before jumping in with hacks to the bridge code.