From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 7 21:02:58 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AC461065670 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 21:02:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bogdan@pgn.ro) Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com (mail-bw0-f213.google.com [209.85.218.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAF7F8FC13 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 21:02:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz5 with SMTP id 5so12017416bwz.3 for ; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:02:53 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.29.22 with SMTP id o22mr875752bkc.78.1262898172775; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:02:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B45F643.9000809@ibctech.ca> References: <4B45F643.9000809@ibctech.ca> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 23:02:52 +0200 Message-ID: From: Bogdan Webb To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: FreeBSD ipv6 rc.conf settings issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:02:58 -0000 Some point out rc.local as a fix, i find it ok to but it has some ups'n'downs indeed in a reboot situation rc.local having the route add command would be ok but in a short network restart it wouldn't count (as i particularly value my uptime)... the ipv6 defaultroute it's not a big issue for me, as i do not depend on it so much, but i find it somewhat important to FreeBSD ... dunno i like to know that a distro is stable in any case (not that i'm complaining FreeBSD) reference: http://www.tunnelbroker.net/forums/index.php?topic=734.0 2010/1/7 Steve Bertrand > Bogdan Webb wrote: > > I'm having problems with the /etc/rc.conf setup of a ipv6 tunnel on my > > FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p6 > > It`s a particular issue on the ipv6_defaultrouter config, it jost does > not > > work... > > Upon network and routing restart ipv6 is enabled the gif interface are > given > > ip's and everything but the defaultrouter does not. > > Researching a bit i found some say that gif1 sould work and tried both > > ipv6_defaultrouter="-interface gif1" > > and > > ipv6_defaultrouter="2001:0470:1f0a:d40::1" > > This issue is not limited to gif interfaces... > > I've had this exact same problem on ALL of my FreeBSD hosts for, well, > since ever. > > No matter what I've tried, if a box reboots, I must manually enter in > the default IPv6 router. > > Even on IPv6-only hosts, the default gateway does not take upon reboot. > > I'm up for figuring this issue out today, if nobody else has a solution > for you. > > Let me know. If you're interested, I'll fire up a couple of hosts that > we can use and just continuously reboot if necessary :) > > Steve >