Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:37:14 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> To: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do you bring IPv6 live without reboot? Message-ID: <467876BA.2040807@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070620094806.3a95ec40@garlique.algebras.org> References: <20070620094806.3a95ec40@garlique.algebras.org>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig40CD7906B926C3EC9C14BCA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If memory serves me right, George Michaelson wrote: > on a 6-STABLE host, I added: >=20 > ipv6_enable=3D"YES" =20 > ipv6_network_interfaces=3D"bge1" >=20 > to rc.conf, and ran /etc/rc.d/network_ipv6 >=20 > this did not bring IPv6 live. rtsol reported problems with get_llflag()= > calls. However across reboot, the system came up with IPv6 fine. >=20 > Can somebody explain why this won't work if run after the init sequence= > has run to completion? What is the sequence of commands that when run > on an active FreeBSD system causes it to successfully bind to IPv6? Hrm. You might also need to invoke /etc/rc.d/auto_linklocal before (I think it's before?) network_ipv6. This script was recently added (during the 6.2 release cycle) as a part of mitigating some security risks related to IPv6 link-local addresses. Bruce. --------------enig40CD7906B926C3EC9C14BCA1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGeHa62MoxcVugUsMRAtAiAKCalNjdJ8awafl1PyDWGIhiVWHFewCg2Sev mr4FbsrUuurFKuQt1vpzAdw= =BwZx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig40CD7906B926C3EC9C14BCA1--
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