Subject: Re: Kernel Panic in IPv6 vxlan

From: Fan Du <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 16:25:30 +0800

Hallo,

On 2013年11月27日 05:41, Ryan Whelan wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is the right place to report this- please correct
> me if I'm mistaken.
>
> When creating a vxlan interface with an IPv6 multicast group but not
> specifying an underlying device, the kernel panics when the vxlan
> interface is brought up.  This doesn't happen with an IPv4 multicast
> group.  Linux 3.12.1 x86_64
>
> `ip link add vxlan0 type vxlan id 42 group ff0e::110`

You forgot to attach vxlan0 to a physical netdev ;) try:

ip link add vxlan0 type vxlan id 42 group ff0e::110 dev ethX

This will work anyway.

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