Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 07:43:59 -0800 From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) To: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPv6: can a link-site (or global) address be configured in rc.conf? Message-ID: <200003061543.e26FhxC20024@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov> In-Reply-To: <38C3C9A6.28E3A38@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <38C3C9A6.28E3A38@we.lc.ehu.es>
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--==_Exmh_614585453P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit If memory serves me right, "Jose M. Alcaide" wrote: > Now that I have several machines running FreeBSD 4.0, I started to > play with IPv6. It's fun! I have plans to set up a v6-over-v4 tunnel > and connect to the 6Bone. > > I read /usr/share/examples/IPv6/USAGE, /usr/share/doc/IPv6/IMPLEMENTATION > and some documents at the KAME web site. However, I still have to figure out > how to assign a not-link-local address (i.e., a site or global address) to > the [unique] Ethernet interface of each host in an automatic manner (from > /etc/rc.conf). After reading /etc/rc.network6 I concluded that no addresses > apart from the link-local ones are assigned to the interfaces. I am using > ifconfig manually to do this (BTW, I found that there is no need to specify > "alias"). /etc/rc.network6 assumes that you'll get your non-link-local address(es) from your router(s) using rtsol(8). The router, in turn, needs to be running something like rtadvd(8). > I am new to IPv6, so maybe I am asking for something with no > sense... IPv6 autoconfiguration is very roughly analogous to using DHCP in the IPv4 world. (It's not exactly the same though. In fact, there exists a DHCP for IPv6.) Hope this helps, Bruce. --==_Exmh_614585453P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: BF+zbfruw8DoZ1OTG6AWPi9tldTGx3M6 iQA/AwUBOMPSP9jKMXFboFLDEQLAQQCgyuSF4pTuzPceTJBt5kPYxNBYELIAniq3 37s0EY49eL/V4J+wTeOCiIaG =saGo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_614585453P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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