From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 30 18:19:48 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 005B010656AC for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:19:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F4308FC19 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:19:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vhoffman-macbook.local ([10.0.0.173]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o6UIJjZE082640 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:19:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <4C5317C0.9010303@unsane.co.uk> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:19:44 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Carl Johnson References: <878w4svp18.fsf@cjlinux.localnet> In-Reply-To: <878w4svp18.fsf@cjlinux.localnet> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:19:48 -0000 On 30/07/2010 18:48, Carl Johnson wrote: > 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. > > Thanks for any advice. > I dont knw if its expected or not but try running sysctl net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv=1 (to make it persistent echo "net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv=1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf ) Vince