From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 2 10:27:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 100B516A4D4; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:27:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from mrout2-b.corp.dcn.yahoo.com (mrout2-b.corp.dcn.yahoo.com [216.109.112.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C644143D6E; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:27:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from minion.local.neville-neil.com (proxy8.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.48.13]) by mrout2-b.corp.dcn.yahoo.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/y.out) with ESMTP id k92AQw1V075797; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 03:26:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:26:56 +0900 Message-ID: From: gnn@freebsd.org To: Robert Watson In-Reply-To: <20061002111837.A1763@fledge.watson.org> References: <200610021013.k92ADUlq048294@repoman.freebsd.org> <20061002111837.A1763@fledge.watson.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.0.50 (i386-apple-darwin8.7.1) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc network.subr src/sys/netinet6 in6_ifattach.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:27:42 -0000 At Mon, 2 Oct 2006 11:20:04 +0100 (BST), rwatson wrote: > > Modified files: > > etc network.subr > > sys/netinet6 in6_ifattach.c > > Log: > > Turn off automatic link local address if ipv6_enable is not set to YES > > in rc.conf > > > > Reviewed by: KAME core team, cperciva > > MFC after: 3 days > > The description here isn't quite accurate -- you implement the right > thing (turn on only if set to yes) rather than the almost right > thing (turn off only if not set to yes) as suggested in the commit > message. The distinction being the kernel default in the event that > the boot scripts haven't run -- i.e., in single-user mode. We might > want to find somewhere to document that if you're in single-user > mode, you need to set this sysctl to 1 in order to force a link > local address to be enabled. OK, my head hurts, but I think I understand. Alice, where is the looking glass? Sorry if the message confuses. I would like, haha, to have time to rework our IPv6 docs. If there is someone doing that I would be more than happy to work with them to add this as well as a few hundred other necessary details. Later, George