ipv6 config stuff

src/netns/interface.py

@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ class NSInterface(Interface):
     def __init__(self, node, index):
         super(NSInterface, self).__init__(index)
         self._slave = node._slave
+        # Disable auto-configuration
+        # you wish: need to take into account the nonetns mode; plus not
+        # touching some pre-existing ifaces
+        #node.system(['/sbin/sysctl', '-w', 'net.ipv6.conf.%s.autoconf=0' % self.name])
         node._add_interface(self)
 
     # some black magic to automatically get/set interface attributes

src/netns/node.py

@@ -162,7 +162,8 @@ def _start_child(debug, nonetns):
             unshare.unshare(unshare.CLONE_NEWNET)
             # Enable packet forwarding
             netns.iproute._execute(['sysctl', '-w', 'net.ipv4.ip_forward=1'])
-        # FIXME: ipv6?
+            netns.iproute._execute(['sysctl', '-w',
+                'net.ipv6.conf.default.forwarding=1'])
         srv.run()
     except BaseException, e:
         s = "Slave node aborting: %s\n" % str(e)