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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:19:17 -0600
From: Brett Lee <Brett.Lee@Sun.COM>
Subject: [users:01270] Re: Self_Test - Path MTU - Interface Question
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Nope!

That was one of the alternatives I was considering.  So that's the 
answer, issue the series of pings from the NUT?

Thanks for the quick response, Jon, and congratulations on your 
successful tests.

-Brett

Jon_Franklin@Dell.com wrote:
> Are you issuing this from the NUT (your device being tested)?
> 
> --
> Jon Franklin
> jon_franklin@dell.com
> x3-8143
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett.Lee@Sun.COM [mailto:Brett.Lee@Sun.COM] 
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 8:38 AM
> To: users@tahi.org
> Subject: [users:01268] Self_Test - Path MTU - Interface Question
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Am running Self_Test 4-0-5, and have a question with:
> 
> Section 4: RFC 1981 - Path MTU Discovery for IPv6
> Test Case 15: Multicast Destination - One Router
> 
> As part of executing the test case, I am being prompted to issue a ping 
> command:
> 
> ping6> Press enter key, and excute the following commands within 5
> seconds.
> ping6> Do ``ping6  DataSize= 1452, Send Count= 1, Interface= lnc0, 
> Destination= FF1E::1:2''
> 
> After pressing ENTER, attempts to execute this command from the test 
> node result in an error:
> 
> # ping6 -s 1452 -c 1 -I lnc0 FF1E::1:2
> ping6: lnc0: invalid interface name
> 
> Have also tried an alternate execution of the command, substituting 
> "lnc0" with "fxp1" (the physical interface for that link), but as "fxp1"
> 
> has IPv6 disabled (per the v6eval instructions), that attempt fails
> also.
> 
> # ping6 -s 1452 -c 1 -I lnc0 fxp1::1:2
> ping6: hostname nor servname provided, or not known
> 
> # ifconfig fxp1
> fxp1: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
> 1500
>          options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>          ether 00:06:5b:39:75:0b
>          media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX)
>          status: active
> 
> Do I need to configure "lnc0" to support multicast?
> What am I missing?
> 
> Thanks in advance, -Brett
> 
> 
> 
>