From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 20 1:23:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from studict.student.utwente.nl (studict.student.utwente.nl [130.89.220.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3765437B43C for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 01:23:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from r.j.steehouder@student.utwente.nl) Received: from kabel203069.kabel.utwente.nl (kabel203069.kabel.utwente.nl [130.89.203.69]) by studict.student.utwente.nl (8.9.3/MQT) with ESMTP id KAA27756; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:23:15 +0200 (METDST) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:24:13 +0200 (West-Europa (zomertijd)) From: Rogier Steehouder Reply-To: To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: Subject: Re: [FBSD-Q] strange ifconfig up behaviour In-Reply-To: <02d401c0c929$61915350$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Message-ID: X-Warning: UNAuthenticated Sender MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mail from Matthew Emmerton, sent 19-04-2001: > 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. IPv6 autoconfiguration. Every nic gets a link-local address starting with fe80::. Then it will add a semi-random unique number to that (usually the mac address?). This address can then be used to aquire a global address from the nearest router. Do a web search on IPv6 autoconfiguration. (or don't use IPv6) (or don't worry about it) with kind regards, Rogier Steehouder -- ___ _ -O_\ Rogier Steehouder // | / mailto:r.j.steehouder@student.utwente.nl //\ / \ http://home.student.utwente.nl/r.j.steehouder/ // \ --------------------------------------------------------- "Bet you can't put it through the eye." "Left or right?" - Femeref Archers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message