Global IPv6 addresses remain deprecated after receiving RA #19846
Labels
Area: network
Area: Networking
Type: bug
The issue reports a bug / The PR fixes a bug (including spelling errors)
Description
SLAAC-configured global IPv6 addresses, once deprecated, do not become valid again after receiving a new router advertisement.
This is a problem when the router advertisement daemon goes offline for a time period between the preferred lifetime and the valid lifetime (e.g. due to maintenance).
Steps to reproduce the issue
...or if you don't want to wait for 4 hours, just send a router advertisement to the node with a preferred lifetime of 1 using a link-local source address:
Expected results
The global address should become valid again after receiving a new router advertisement.
Actual results
The valid lifetime and preferred lifetime are updated by new router advertisements. However the address remains deprecated:
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