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Date:      Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:35:12 -0400
From:      "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   strange ifconfig up behaviour
Message-ID:  <02d401c0c929$61915350$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>

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I'm running 4.3-RC (early April) and am seeing something I consider strange
with ifconfig.

For a card that's down:

gabby# ifconfig rl0
rl0:  flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        ether 00:50:ba:51:53:11
        media: autoselect (none) status: no carrier
        supported media:  autoseleect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX
10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP 100baseTX <hw-loopback>

And then up:

gabby# ifconfig rl0 up
gabby# ifconfig rl0
rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::250:baff:fe51:5311%rl0 prefixlen 64 tentative scopeid
0x1
        ether 00:50:ba:51:53:11
        media: autoselect (none) status: no carrier
        supported media:  autoseleect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX
10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP 100baseTX <hw-loopback>

How in the heck did this card magically get assigned an IPv6 address?
Later, when I do an 'ifconfig rl0 down', the flags are changed, but the
inet6 address stays, and I'm unable to remove the address from the
interface.

--
Matt Emmerton


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