From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 3 10:49:56 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8AAE106566C for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2012 10:49:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bra@fsn.hu) Received: from people.fsn.hu (people.fsn.hu [195.228.252.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B26E8FC13 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2012 10:49:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by people.fsn.hu (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8C758C3E747; Sat, 3 Mar 2012 11:49:49 +0100 (CET) X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.2 X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MF-ACE0E1EA [pR: 9.2532] X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20120303_11494_008A2D4F X-CRM114-Status: Good ( pR: 9.2532 ) X-DSPAM-Result: Whitelisted X-DSPAM-Processed: Sat Mar 3 11:49:49 2012 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.7005 X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0000 X-DSPAM-Signature: 4f51f74d795991054321265 X-DSPAM-Factors: 27, From*Attila Nagy , 0.00010, conf, 0.00204, IPv6, 0.00518, IPv6, 0.00518, I+get, 0.00551, 2+20, 0.00632, interfaces, 0.00632, rc, 0.00710, the+machine, 0.00811, 255, 0.00811, 255, 0.00811, 192, 0.00873, Subject*IPv6, 0.00945, IPv4, 0.01000, Date*Mar+2012, 0.99000, ifconfig, 0.01000, Received*Mar+2012, 0.99000, 255+255, 0.01000, 255+255, 0.01000, up+it, 0.99000, User-Agent*i686, 0.01062, doesn't, 0.01149, User-Agent*Linux+i686, 0.01211, User-Agent*i686+en, 0.01303, configuration, 0.01455, User-Agent*Mozilla/5.0+(X11, 0.01512, X-Spambayes-Classification: ham; 0.00 Received: from [192.168.3.2] (japan.t-online.co.hu [195.228.243.99]) by people.fsn.hu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AAA7EC3E739 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2012 11:49:48 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4F51F74A.1010403@fsn.hu> Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:49:46 +0100 From: Attila Nagy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090817 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: net@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: IPv6 and CARP 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, 03 Mar 2012 10:49:56 -0000 Hi, On a recently built stable/9 I have these lines in rc.conf: ifconfig_em0_name="admin" vlans_admin="pub" create_args_pub="vlan 20" ifconfig_admin="inet 192.168.2.20 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_pub="inet 1.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.224" ifconfig_pub_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv" ifconfig_carp0="vhid 1 pass beef 1.1.1.2/27" ifconfig_carp0_ipv6="inet6 2001::beef/64" When the machine boots up, it has every interfaces configured with the right addresses, except carp0, which has the IPv4, but no the IPv6 address. However if I specify: ifconfig carp0 inet6 2001::beef/64 carp0 gets the IPv6 address and I get carp0: 2 link states coalesced log entry. What is the problem with the above configuration, why doesn't carp0 get the IPv6 address during boot? Thanks,