From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 14 23:02:52 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D8D6C02 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:02:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pb0-x22c.google.com (mail-pb0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c01::22c]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 56FF42D62 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:02:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f44.google.com with SMTP id xa7so78956pbc.3 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 16:02:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=5cKzq7z9RvUeirbIiBHetYu9M83oNuVLm9bmhY1yY0w=; b=xL5gKMUlMq2l4kvhFmrzrhEe/c6pid0fHxJTc/xRUaZ/eL5ZK8/2b1wdWmae9HbJjY fIJlUahZ6jXp5C23xTet7D+B5099wOoNQWJLWjZrrnls2OIS/DuVgauQT4NAjOCJqbI4 QTllqp46zNqX6ihpKpGuOlkyXWpY9W+PlErrYwE9+bgAQNjNjOxLogpt38H+lonljYBl M51nFhT/zCkWKcaYuqNHmTp5r0VjWA/Xh7rptujVFZG1Kp+ELjYVZnnyndCDNYB31CAR n+VS2SsNpo7W0EuAlIVMvyUToMoS9tw14Xv7MqIPL9JrEzlikm3Jsx2q7hV5dlZGC//J /S9A== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.175.33 with SMTP id bx1mr12436787pbc.21.1376521371890; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 16:02:51 -0700 (PDT) Sender: kob6558@gmail.com Received: by 10.67.14.66 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 16:02:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130814213116.380d8b87@justice.alkumuna.eu> References: <20130814205500.31d659ba@justice.alkumuna.eu> <520BD450.9090102@yandex.ru> <20130814213116.380d8b87@justice.alkumuna.eu> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 16:02:51 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: FPRx24gpRjYv83NlglnfACrFoeE Message-ID: Subject: Re: 9.2-RC1, nfe, auto_linklocal : ioctl(SIOCGIFINFO_IN6): Invalid argument From: Kevin Oberman To: Matthieu Volat Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Stable" X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:02:52 -0000 On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Matthieu Volat wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:02:40 +0400 > "Andrey V. Elsukov" wrote: > > > On 14.08.2013 22:55, Matthieu Volat wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've noticed that with 9.2-RC1, I cannot set/unset the auto_locallink > > > flag on the nfe network interface on my laptop: > > > > > > # ifconfig nfe0 -auto_linklocal ifconfig: ioctl(SIOCGIFINFO_IN6): > > > Invalid argument > > > > I think you should use `ifconfig nfe0 inet6 -auto_linklocal`. > > > > -- > > WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov > > My bad, you are definitively right! > > I wonder why the global sysctl would not disable linklocal adress on this > interface, but I'd prefer to control it through the ifconfig_*_ipv6 fields > interface by interface, so that's not really a problem. > > Thanks! > > -- Mazhe > Not really a followup or a response, but I am just a bit curious why you would want to want to do this. II have seen this question several times, so I am wondering what I might be missing. I'm hoping it's not just a general aversion to all things IPv6. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com