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Date:      Fri, 11 Mar 2022 23:17:07 -0800
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Cc:        Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org>, Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>,  Freebsd net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: IPv6: How does one have the system use a prefix gotten from rtsol with a static host part?
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 8:00 PM Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> wrote:

> On 03/11/2022 9:36 pm, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 20:47:10 +0900, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> >
> >> > Something like this should work for you:
> >> >
> >> >   ifconfig_eth0_ipv6="inet6 fe80::53:1 -auto_linklocal accept_rtadv"
> >>
> >> Nope, didn't work on my home net:
> >
> > It's strange to me.
> > That setting is actually working on my box.
> >
> >> ❯ ifconfig bce0
> >> bce0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
> >> 1500
> >>
> options=c01bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE>
> >>      ether a4:ba:db:29:66:95
> >>      inet 192.168.200.4 netmask 0xfffffc00 broadcast 192.168.203.255
> >>      inet 192.168.200.5 netmask 0xfffffc00 broadcast 192.168.203.255
> >
> >>      inet6 fe80::a6ba:dbff:fe29:6695%bce0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
> >
> > It seems -auto_linklocal is not working for you.
> >
> >>      inet6 fe80::53:1%bce0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
> >>      inet6 2600:1700:210:b18f:a6ba:dbff:fe29:6695 prefixlen 64 autoconf
> >>      media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
> >>      status: active
> >>      nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
> >>
> >> grep bce0 /etc/rc.conf:
> >> ifconfig_bce0="inet 192.168.200.4/22 "
> >> ifconfig_bce0_alias0="inet 192.168.200.5/22 "
> >> ifconfig_bce0_ipv6="inet6 fe80::53:1 accept_rtadv -auto_linklocal"
> >
> > I'm using DHCP for IPv4 address.
> > When ifconfig_bce0_alias0 is set, it does not work.
> > It seems that ifconfig_bce0_alias0 does up bce0 before set
> > -auto_linklocal.
> > After some testing, following setting works here.
> >
> > ifconfig_bce0="inet6 fe80::53:1 -auto_linklocal"
> > ifconfig_bce0_alias0="inet 192.168.200.4/22"
> > ifconfig_bce0_alias1="inet 192.168.200.5/22"
> > ifconfig_bce0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv"
> >
> Thank You so much.  That works here too.  I wonder if this deserves a
> document somewhere?
> It's NOT intuitively obvious that:
> a) Order in /etc/rc.conf matters
> b) the fe80 address influences the global address
>

I don't see how 'a' is possible. All rc.conf does is defne a bunch of
environmental variables. I don't see any way the order is relevant other
than that a later definition of a variable overriding an earlier one. What
am I missing here?
-- 
Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683

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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 8:00 PM Larry Rosenman &lt;<a href="mailto:ler@lerctr.org">ler@lerctr.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 03/11/2022 9:36 pm, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:<br>
&gt; Hi,<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 20:47:10 +0900, Larry Rosenman wrote:<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt;&gt; &gt; Something like this should work for you:<br>
&gt;&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; &gt;   ifconfig_eth0_ipv6=&quot;inet6 fe80::53:1 -auto_linklocal accept_rtadv&quot;<br>
&gt;&gt; <br>
&gt;&gt; Nope, didn&#39;t work on my home net:<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; It&#39;s strange to me.<br>
&gt; That setting is actually working on my box.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt;&gt; ❯ ifconfig bce0<br>
&gt;&gt; bce0: flags=8843&lt;UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST&gt; metric 0 mtu<br>
&gt;&gt; 1500<br>
&gt;&gt;      options=c01bb&lt;RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;      ether a4:ba:db:29:66:95<br>
&gt;&gt;      inet 192.168.200.4 netmask 0xfffffc00 broadcast 192.168.203.255<br>
&gt;&gt;      inet 192.168.200.5 netmask 0xfffffc00 broadcast 192.168.203.255<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt;&gt;      inet6 fe80::a6ba:dbff:fe29:6695%bce0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; It seems -auto_linklocal is not working for you.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt;&gt;      inet6 fe80::53:1%bce0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2<br>
&gt;&gt;      inet6 2600:1700:210:b18f:a6ba:dbff:fe29:6695 prefixlen 64 autoconf<br>
&gt;&gt;      media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT &lt;full-duplex&gt;)<br>
&gt;&gt;      status: active<br>
&gt;&gt;      nd6 options=3&lt;PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; <br>
&gt;&gt; grep bce0 /etc/rc.conf:<br>
&gt;&gt; ifconfig_bce0=&quot;inet <a href="http://192.168.200.4/22" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">192.168.200.4/22</a> &quot;<br>
&gt;&gt; ifconfig_bce0_alias0=&quot;inet <a href="http://192.168.200.5/22" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">192.168.200.5/22</a> &quot;<br>
&gt;&gt; ifconfig_bce0_ipv6=&quot;inet6 fe80::53:1 accept_rtadv -auto_linklocal&quot;<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; I&#39;m using DHCP for IPv4 address.<br>
&gt; When ifconfig_bce0_alias0 is set, it does not work.<br>
&gt; It seems that ifconfig_bce0_alias0 does up bce0 before set<br>
&gt; -auto_linklocal.<br>
&gt; After some testing, following setting works here.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; ifconfig_bce0=&quot;inet6 fe80::53:1 -auto_linklocal&quot;<br>
&gt; ifconfig_bce0_alias0=&quot;inet <a href="http://192.168.200.4/22" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">192.168.200.4/22</a>&quot;<br>
&gt; ifconfig_bce0_alias1=&quot;inet <a href="http://192.168.200.5/22" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">192.168.200.5/22</a>&quot;<br>
&gt; ifconfig_bce0_ipv6=&quot;inet6 accept_rtadv&quot;<br>
&gt; <br>
Thank You so much.  That works here too.  I wonder if this deserves a <br>
document somewhere?<br>
It&#39;s NOT intuitively obvious that:<br>
a) Order in /etc/rc.conf matters<br>
b) the fe80 address influences the global address<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I don&#39;t see how &#39;a&#39; is possible. All rc.conf does is defne a bunch of environmental variables. I don&#39;t see any way the order is relevant other than that a later definition of a variable overriding an earlier one. What am I missing here?<br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:rkoberman@gmail.com" target="_blank">rkoberman@gmail.com</a><br></div><div>PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

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