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On 11/2/06, Vince Hoffman <jhary@unsane.co.uk> wrote:
>
> You have the order wrong
>
> root@crayfish
> (00:22:37 <~>) 0 # ifconfig xl0 inet6 2001:470:1f01:244::30
> root@crayfish
> (00:23:27 <~>) 0 # ifconfig xl0
> xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         options=9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
>         inet6 fe80::211:d8ff:fe9f:531c%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>         inet 10.0.0.100 netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast 10.0.0.127
>         inet6 2001:470:1f01:244::30 prefixlen 64
>         ether 00:11:d8:9f:53:1c
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>         status: active
> root@crayfish
> (00:23:32 <~>) 0 # ifconfig xl0 inet6 2001:470:1f01:244::30 remove
> root@crayfish
> (00:23:34 <~>) 0 # ifconfig xl0
> xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         options=9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
>         inet6 fe80::211:d8ff:fe9f:531c%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>         inet 10.0.0.100 netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast 10.0.0.127
>         ether 00:11:d8:9f:53:1c
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>         status: active
>
>
Interesting!  Thanks much for this.  I tried and it works.  Interesting that
for IPv4 this command works:

ifconfig <intf> delete <IP>


but for IPv6 one must do:

ifconfig <intf> inet6 <IP> remove

Thanks again.

Andy