From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 6 7:45:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nimitz.ca.sandia.gov (nimitz.ca.sandia.gov [146.246.243.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0527337BD22 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 07:45:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by nimitz.ca.sandia.gov (8.10.0.Beta12/8.10.0.Beta12) id e26FhxC20024; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 07:43:59 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003061543.e26FhxC20024@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1-cvs 10/15/1999 To: "Jose M. Alcaide" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPv6: can a link-site (or global) address be configured in rc.conf? In-Reply-To: <38C3C9A6.28E3A38@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <38C3C9A6.28E3A38@we.lc.ehu.es> Comments: In-reply-to "Jose M. Alcaide" message dated "Mon, 06 Mar 2000 16:07:18 +0100." From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Url: http://www.ca.sandia.gov/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_614585453P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 07:43:59 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==_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