[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#769824: base: IPv6 networking issues after assigning more that 32 addresses

[A.P.C. Rijnart]

Package: base
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
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   * What led up to the situation?
On a system where I like to have various individual web/mail-environments I want each individual to have differen addrsses for pop3, pop3s, imap, imaps, http, rsync, etc... So I get PREFIX::6:<port>:<uid>.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
I assign the ip's with: ip -6 address add <ip6> dev eth0 preferred_lft 0
The use of preferred_lft 0 is because I want a predefined address for outgoing communication

   * What was the outcome of this action?
After Iassigned 33rd, 34th, etc ipv6 address to eth0 the system started behaving erratically; shell connection fails/sql connection fails/icmp fails.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
I expected the same stable operation as for the first 32 addresses.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.7
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: x86_64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash