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Date:      Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:19:40 +0300
From:      Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com>
To:        Eric L Camachat <eric.camachat@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ipv6_activate_all_interfaces doesn't work on wireless interface.
Message-ID:  <CA%2B7WWSejw14ZhgVUjbjH-VjZh4A0yaLt2R8XeL77Back995qNw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Eric L Camachat
<eric.camachat@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is my /etc/rc.conf
> ipv6_enable="YES"
> #ip6addrctl_enable="YES"
> #ip6addrctl_policy="ipv6_prefer"
> #ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES"
> wlans_iwn0="wlan0"
> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
>
> rc.d system said ipv6_enable is obsoleted by
> ipv6_activate_all_interfaces.
> So, I tried to replaced ipv6_enable with ipv6_activate_all_interfaces
> and ip6addrctl_*, interface wlan0 will not get ipv6 address from router.
>
> After investigated, that's because of wlan0 didn't add 'accept_rtadv'
> ipv6 option.
>
> --
> Eric
>

As far as I know, not enabling accept_rtadv is a reasonable default
and it has been like that always. Just like DHCP is not a default
configuration method for IPv4 addresses.

-Kimmo



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