From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 10 18:35:39 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2E5310656C3 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:35:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: from ibctech.ca (v6.ibctech.ca [IPv6:2607:f118::b6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E87D8FC1A for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:35:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 62478 invoked by uid 89); 10 Feb 2009 18:36:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?IPv6:2607:f118::5?) (steve@ibctech.ca@2607:f118::5) by v6.ibctech.ca with ESMTPA; 10 Feb 2009 18:36:23 -0000 Message-ID: <4991C8EC.8050100@ibctech.ca> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:35:24 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ipfreak@yahoo.com References: <422087.73333.qm@web52112.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <422087.73333.qm@web52112.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd general questions Subject: Re: ipv6 and freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:35:40 -0000 gahn wrote: > Thanks for the tips. > > But i still only see the fe80::..., link-local address, not the fec0:... something as I expected. Provide the output to: # sysctl -a net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv # ndp -i fxp0 # ifconfig fxp0 ...and, run a tcpdump on fxp0 capturing only IPv6 packets. Eventually you should see the router advertisements: # tcpdump -n -i fxp0 ip6 If you don't see them, check your router config. What type of router is it? Most routers have RAs disabled by default. Steve