Re: dhcpcd: re1: DHCPv6 REPLY: iana not found

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 05/02/2016 14:05, Rhialto wrote:
> Feb  4 22:27:21 murthe dhcpcd[11370]: re1: adding route to 2001:67c:1562::/64
> Feb  4 22:35:15 murthe dhcpcd[11370]: re1: Router Advertisement from fe80::ca0e:14ff:feee:a54b
> Feb  4 22:39:22 murthe dhcpcd[11370]: re1: Router Advertisement from fe80::ca0e:14ff:feee:a54b
> Feb  4 22:39:22 murthe dhcpcd[11370]: re1: adding address 2001:67c:1560:8001:b80a:a3c6:f2a8:b8f8/64
> Feb  4 22:39:22 murthe dhcpcd[11370]: re1: adding route to 2001:67c:1560:8001::/64
> Feb  4 22:40:23 murthe dhcpcd[11370]: re1: Router Advertisement from fe80::ca0e:14ff:feee:a54b
> Feb  4 22:40:23 murthe dhcpcd[11370]: re1: adding address 2a03:7900:2:0:7c9f:2ae6:856e:b74b/64
> Feb  4 22:40:23 murthe dhcpcd[11370]: if_addaddress6: Cannot allocate memory
> Feb  4 22:40:23 murthe dhcpcd[11370]: re1: adding route to 2a03:7900:2::/64
> Feb  4 22:40:25 murthe dhcpcd[11370]: re1: Router Advertisement from fe80::ca0e:14ff:feee:a54b
> Feb  4 22:40:25 murthe dhcpcd[11370]: re1: adding address 2a03:7900:2:0:7c9f:2ae6:856e:b74b/64
> Feb  4 22:40:25 murthe dhcpcd[11370]: if_addaddress6: Cannot allocate memory
> 
> The "if_addaddress6: Cannot allocate memory" doesn't look very
> encouraging and was repeated several more times in between similar
> messages.

You're receiving RA's quite quickly.
The IPv6 spec says to create a new temporary address for each prefix
each time we receive one in a RA.
Is the out of memory referring to the sheer quantity of addresses maybe?

> Oh, and I found it very mystifying that I got no error messages at all
> from the end-of-line comments in the config file. The manual does say
> more or less that that's not supported, but still... before I realised
> that my attempts were failing because of that, I had torn out a lot of
> hair.

Hopefully the next version won't trigger panic buying of hair
restoration products :)

Roy