From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 20 00:37:23 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20C9E16A46B for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:37:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bmah@freebsd.org) Received: from a.mail.sonic.net (a.mail.sonic.net [64.142.16.245]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A28413C489 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:37:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bmah@freebsd.org) Received: from bmah.local (hornet.kitchenlab.org [64.142.31.105]) (authenticated bits=0) by a.mail.sonic.net (8.13.8.Beta0-Sonic/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l5K0bGc1002730 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:37:17 -0700 Message-ID: <467876BA.2040807@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:37:14 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Macintosh/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: George Michaelson References: <20070620094806.3a95ec40@garlique.algebras.org> In-Reply-To: <20070620094806.3a95ec40@garlique.algebras.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig40CD7906B926C3EC9C14BCA1" Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do you bring IPv6 live without reboot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:37:23 -0000 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--