Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:35:17 +0530 From: wahjava.ml@gmail.com (Ashish Shukla =?utf-8?B?4KSG4KS24KWA4KS3IA==?= =?utf-8?B?4KS24KWB4KSV4KWN4KSy?=) To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions ML <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Change in /etc/rc.conf:ipv6_defaultrouter Message-ID: <86hcbc7042.fsf@chateau.d.lf> In-Reply-To: <DD1CEBD6-5885-4D79-863C-8BAC12E9352A@strauser.com> (Kirk Strauser's message of "Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:06:15 -0500") References: <DD1CEBD6-5885-4D79-863C-8BAC12E9352A@strauser.com>
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--=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ,--- Kirk Strauser writes: | I've been using IPv6 on my FreeBSD-7 host for quite some time. My | IPv6 router is a different machine, so the FreeBSD server is just a | regular host on the network. | This morning I discovered that I couldn't pass packets to hosts | outside my LAN from FreeBSD, although an OS X host on the same LAN had | no problems pinging www.kame.net. | I had this in my /etc/rc.conf: | ipv6_ifconfig_fxp0=3D"2001:470:a80a:1:2d0:b7ff:fe0e:3a4a prefixlen | 64" | ipv6_defaultrouter=3D"fe80::213:10ff:fe79:137a" I don't know how is above ipv6_defaultrouter setting is working, since above is a link-local address, and you've not specified any explicit link in above fe80::/10 address. BtW, did you recently changed your configuration ? Is this same setting working since you started using IPv6 on your FreeBSD host, hmm..? | Whenever I'd try to ping6 my local router, I'd get: | ping6: UDP connect: Network is unreachable Are you trying to ping6 a link-local address, without any mention of interface, hmm...? | Also, the routing table seemed a bit screwy and was sending everything | to lo0: | $ netstat -nr -f inet6 | [...] | default fe80::213:10ff:fe79:137a UGS | lo0 | I found two workarounds: | ipv6_defaultrouter=3D"2001:470:a80a:1::1" I think above solution is better. =2D-=20 =B7-- =B7- =B7=B7=B7=B7 =B7--- =B7- =B7=B7=B7- =B7- =B7--=B7-=B7 --=B7 -- = =B7- =B7=B7 =B7-=B7=B7 =B7-=B7-=B7- -=B7-=B7 --- -- --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkhnpLIACgkQHy+EEHYuXnQZIQCdEu3SNWgQPz/LfQfQgz/Vxe4F Pr4An0pfOkj/TX2CXLbTMPofay+0oVLA =5goD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--
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