From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 2 04:32:04 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 B82D6106567C for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 04:32:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carlj@peak.org) Received: from redcondor2.peak.org (redcondor2.peak.org [69.59.192.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DB3F8FC34 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 04:32:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from peak-mail-gateway.peak.org ([69.59.192.42]) by redcondor2.peak.org ({e8dac926-1ec8-47e6-b410-31008b345fb7}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTP id 20100802043203468 for ; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 04:32:03 +0000 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from cjlinux.localnet (207.55.91.197.peak.org [207.55.91.197] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by peak-mail-gateway.peak.org (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id o724W2ZI038255 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 1 Aug 2010 21:32:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carlj by cjlinux.localnet with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ofmgz-0004Nf-Of for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:32:01 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <878w4svp18.fsf@cjlinux.localnet> From: Carl Johnson Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:32:01 -0700 In-Reply-To: <878w4svp18.fsf@cjlinux.localnet> (Carl Johnson's message of "Fri\, 30 Jul 2010 10\:48\:51 -0700") Message-ID: <87r5ihbpoe.fsf@cjlinux.localnet> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: IPv6 rtadv on FreeBSD 8.1? 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: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 04:32:04 -0000 Carl Johnson writes: > I have running versions of 7.3 and 8.0, so I tried experimenting with > 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I ran into a couple of problems. I have an 8.0 > system that is running a IPv6 tunnel to sixxs.net, and it is running > rtadvd to act as the gatway for my network. On the 8.1 system I > enabled IPv6 in rc.conf, but it is not picking up the advertised > address. I can add it manually, and have put it in rc.local for now, > but it seems it should work automatically as my others do. I noticed > that the ifconfig output shows a new line that is not in 8.0: > nd6 options=3 > > Is there something that has changed in 8.1 that I have to enable, or > is there a problem with 8.1? IPv6 is working to the extent that it > did assign a link-local address, and I can use that address as long as > I specify the interface. My configuration is the same, and I didn't > have to enable anything on the others to get the global address > assigned automatically. This is a followup to note that it does work when I run it on native hardware instead of under VirtualBox. My version of VirtualBox is an old one (2.1.4) running under Linux, so maybe it has some bugs. I had installed FreeBSD under VirtualBox, but installed to a primary partition specifically so that I could later boot directly into it. The odd thing is that I have a similar FreeBSD 7.3 installation which does work properly under VirtualBox. Now if I could just figure out why gnus doesn't work right under emacs I could finish migrating from Linux to FreeBSD. -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org