From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 23 04:07:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04C8716A51A for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:07:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Received: from ameno.mahoroba.org (gw4.mahoroba.org [218.45.22.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A5F543D45 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:07:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Received: from localhost (IDENT:nf9AGaNLb1v3vefWYW1NvetJ+6xoTP+nShGK+D9juNoRIj+Mj5hS5TKLB+DJrnjI@localhost [IPv6:::1]) (user=ume mech=CRAM-MD5 bits=0) by ameno.mahoroba.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP/inet6 id k2N479cw034090 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:07:12 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:07:08 +0900 Message-ID: From: Hajimu UMEMOTO To: "Kevin Oberman" In-Reply-To: <20060322180810.3846645041@ptavv.es.net> References: <20060322180810.3846645041@ptavv.es.net> User-Agent: xcite1.38> Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.0.50 (i386-unknown-freebsd5.5) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE X-PGP-Key: http://www.imasy.or.jp/~ume/publickey.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1F00 0B9E 2164 70FC 6DC5 BF5F 04E9 F086 BF90 71FE Organization: Internet Mutual Aid Society, YOKOHAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.3 (ameno.mahoroba.org [IPv6:::1]); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:07:13 +0900 (JST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on ameno.mahoroba.org Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPv6 neighbor discovery with static addresses 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: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:07:30 -0000 Hi, >>>>> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:08:10 -0800 >>>>> "Kevin Oberman" said: oberman> When I configure a system with a static IPv6 address (e.g oberman> ipv6_ifconfig_nve0="2001:400:14:2753::28:14/64) the systems does not oberman> seem to find its router. I need to add ipv6_defaultrouter to rc.conf. oberman> Is there some reason that the system should not configure the default oberman> using ND in this case? Because, not a few people don't want to accept RA but want to configure their network setting statically. ipv6_ifconfig_* is for such purpose. If ipv6_ifconfig_* is set, RA is not accepted. If you want to accept RA as well, please use ipv6_ifconfig_nve0_alias0 instead. Sincerely, -- Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan ume@mahoroba.org ume@{,jp.}FreeBSD.org http://www.imasy.org/~ume/