Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 08:28:00 -0800 From: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> To: 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: <200003061628.IAA19733@windsor.research.att.com>
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Bruce is right that machines expect to learn their prefixes from their
local router; however if you're just playing around you might want to
set it yourself. The easiest way I've found to do this is to say that
this machine is a router:
# sysctl -w net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1
net.inet6.ip6.forwarding: 0 -> 1
and then run "prefix" to set a site-local prefix:
# prefix dc0 fec0:0:0:1::
# ifconfig dc0
dc0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::2a0:ccff:fe36:7410%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet6 fec0::1:2a0:ccff:fe36:7410 prefixlen 64
Of course, if you have global address space too you can assign that prefix
too.
Bill
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