From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 8 13:40:12 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C4DD1065705 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2011 13:40:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nonsolosoft@diff.org) Received: from u1.diff.org (u1.diff.org [78.46.96.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F4028FC18 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2011 13:40:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lap.diff.org (vola.diff.org [81.174.26.135]) (authenticated bits=0) by u1.diff.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p08DAXND040191 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2011 13:10:35 GMT (envelope-from nonsolosoft@diff.org) Message-ID: <4D286242.30500@diff.org> Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 14:10:26 +0100 From: Ferruccio Zamuner Organization: NonSoLoSoft User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; DragonFly i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20101023 Lightning/1.0b3pre Lanikai/3.1.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.3.5 (u1.diff.org [78.46.96.43]); Sat, 08 Jan 2011 13:10:35 +0000 (UTC) Subject: IPv6 with FreeBSD 8.1 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: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 13:40:12 -0000 Ciao, I was trying to configure my host with IPv6. I've verified: 1) options INET6 # IPv6 communications protocols exists in /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/MYKERNEL, and it is. 2) in /etc/rc.conf: ipv6_enable="YES" to be enabled, and it is. But: > ping6 -c4 ::1 ping6: ai_family not supported even if ifconfig output: lo0: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 16384 options=3 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 I'm a IPv6 newbie, but I've not understood from what I've read until now what I've missed or where/what I did wrong configuring IPv6 on FreeBSD 8.1. Can you please help me with links, hints or explains to fix it and get it running? Here there is also sysctl output filtered by inet6. > sysctl -A | grep inet6 net.inet6.ip6.forwarding: 0 net.inet6.ip6.redirect: 1 net.inet6.ip6.hlim: 64 net.inet6.ip6.stats: Format:S,ip6stat Length:3312 Dump:0x00000000000000000000000000000000... net.inet6.ip6.maxfragpackets: 6400 net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv: 0 net.inet6.ip6.keepfaith: 0 net.inet6.ip6.log_interval: 5 net.inet6.ip6.hdrnestlimit: 15 net.inet6.ip6.dad_count: 1 net.inet6.ip6.auto_flowlabel: 1 net.inet6.ip6.defmcasthlim: 1 net.inet6.ip6.gifhlim: 30 net.inet6.ip6.kame_version: FreeBSD net.inet6.ip6.use_deprecated: 1 net.inet6.ip6.rr_prune: 5 net.inet6.ip6.v6only: 1 net.inet6.ip6.rtexpire: 3600 net.inet6.ip6.rtminexpire: 10 net.inet6.ip6.rtmaxcache: 128 net.inet6.ip6.use_tempaddr: 0 net.inet6.ip6.temppltime: 86400 net.inet6.ip6.tempvltime: 604800 net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal: 1 net.inet6.ip6.rip6stats: Format:S,rip6stat Length:56 Dump:0x00000000000000000000000000000000... net.inet6.ip6.prefer_tempaddr: 0 net.inet6.ip6.use_defaultzone: 0 net.inet6.ip6.maxfrags: 6400 net.inet6.ip6.mcast_pmtu: 0 net.inet6.ip6.mcast.loop: 1 net.inet6.ip6.mcast.maxsocksrc: 128 net.inet6.ip6.mcast.maxgrpsrc: 512 net.inet6.ip6.fw.deny_unknown_exthdrs: 1 net.inet6.ip6.fw.enable: 1 net.inet6.ipsec6.ipsecstats: Format:S,ipsecstat Length:12504 Dump:0x00000000000000000000000000000000... net.inet6.ipsec6.def_policy: 1 net.inet6.ipsec6.esp_trans_deflev: 1 net.inet6.ipsec6.esp_net_deflev: 1 net.inet6.ipsec6.ah_trans_deflev: 1 net.inet6.ipsec6.ah_net_deflev: 1 net.inet6.ipsec6.ecn: 0 net.inet6.ipsec6.debug: 0 net.inet6.ipsec6.filtertunnel: 0 net.inet6.icmp6.stats: Format:S,icmp6stat Length:4328 Dump:0x00000000000000000000000000000000... net.inet6.icmp6.rediraccept: 1 net.inet6.icmp6.redirtimeout: 600 net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_prune: 1 net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_delay: 5 net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_umaxtries: 3 net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_mmaxtries: 3 net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_useloopback: 1 net.inet6.icmp6.nodeinfo: 3 net.inet6.icmp6.errppslimit: 100 net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_maxnudhint: 0 net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_debug: 0 net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_prlist: Format:N Length:128 Dump:0x1c1c000000000000fe80000000000000... net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_maxqueuelen: 1 net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_onlink_ns_rfc4861: 0 net.inet6.mld.use_allow: 1 net.inet6.mld.v1enable: 1 net.inet6.mld.gsrdelay: 10 Thank you in advance, \ferz