From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 23 00:23:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13B2016A420 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:23:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Received: from ameno.mahoroba.org (gw4.mahoroba.org [218.45.22.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B5D143D46 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:23:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Received: from kasuga.mahoroba.org (IDENT:gTe1h5IgrvyhjjOwnfTp/ql5coqtNkENwLQ4uM8Ghw0J5/B3uDaNy+hB/54EUSOV@kasuga-iwi.mahoroba.org [IPv6:3ffe:501:185b:8010:212:f0ff:fe52:6ac]) (user=ume mech=CRAM-MD5 bits=0) by ameno.mahoroba.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP/inet6 id k1N0NXZg082684 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:23:34 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:23:33 +0900 Message-ID: From: Hajimu UMEMOTO To: Sean McNeil In-Reply-To: <1140651365.72057.10.camel@triton.mcneil.com> References: <1140651365.72057.10.camel@triton.mcneil.com> User-Agent: xcite1.38> 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-unknown-freebsd6.1) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE X-PGP-Key: http://www.imasy.or.jp/~ume/publickey.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1F00 0B9E 2164 70FC 6DC5 BF5F 04E9 F086 BF90 71FE Organization: Internet Mutual Aid Society, YOKOHAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.3 (ameno.mahoroba.org [IPv6:3ffe:501:185b:8010::1]); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:23:34 +0900 (JST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,HOT_NASTY autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on ameno.mahoroba.org Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multiple IPv6 addressing X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:23:42 -0000 Hi, >>>>> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:36:05 -0800 >>>>> Sean McNeil said: sean> I seem to think that this behaved differently, but perhaps not. Is this sean> appropriate behavior?... sean> triton# host ferrari sean> ferrari has address 10.1.0.50 sean> ferrari has IPv6 address xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xx0e:xbxx:xxca:77cf sean> ferrari has IPv6 address xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxc0:xfxx:xxa7:aea sean> If I do a ping6 ferrari, it alternates between the 2 addresses. I sean> thought it tried to figure out which was working. Seems that systems sean> will often have multiple IPv6 addresses especially for something like a sean> laptop with a wireless and wired connection. Yes, it is expected default behavior. You may want to use ip6addrctl(8) to change this behavior. Please refer the manpage of ip6addrctl(8). Sincerely, -- Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan ume@mahoroba.org ume@{,jp.}FreeBSD.org http://www.imasy.org/~ume/