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Date:      Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:04:16 +0100
From:      "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        "Max Laier" <max@love2party.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPv6 routing help?
Message-ID:  <9bbcef730812190604p5567295al51e586c2be2b866a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200812190117.43337.max@love2party.net>
References:  <giedif$bd0$1@ger.gmane.org> <200812190033.01630.max@love2party.net> <gieose$gfj$1@ger.gmane.org> <200812190117.43337.max@love2party.net>

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2008/12/19 Max Laier <max@love2party.net>:
> On Friday 19 December 2008 01:11:51 Ivan Voras wrote:
>> Max Laier wrote:
>> > On the interface you are running rtadvd you need a global address out of
>> > your stf prefix, e.g. 2002:aabb:ccdd:1::/64.  Once you do that,
>> > everything else should just fall into place.  The client will configure
>> > an address out of that prefix and adds a route via 2002:aabb:ccdd:1::/64.
>> >  This should get you going.
>>
>> Thanks, I understand now what I was doing wrong before. Actually 6to4 is
>> very elegant.
>>
>> Another related question: if I understand it correctly, rtadvd should
>> also be used for address autoconfiguration (like DHCP for IPv6, but not
>> actually DHCP). I have it running with defaults (they look like they
>> should do the right thing) and apparently it works as the client got the
>> link-local address of the router as it's default IPv6 route, but I
>> expected it would also automagically pick up the 2002:aabb:ccdd:1::/64
>> network when I assigned an address from it on the router and
>> autoconfigure its own address. Maybe I'm expecting too much of it?
>
> It will, provided you properly assign an address on the NIC that is running
> rtadvd.

Thanks, it did!



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