From owner-freebsd-net Tue May 15 0:13:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from web5301.mail.yahoo.com (web5301.mail.yahoo.com [216.115.106.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE5EC37B43C for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 00:13:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vishubp@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010515071342.16796.qmail@web5301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [203.200.20.3] by web5301.mail.yahoo.com; Tue, 15 May 2001 08:13:42 BST Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 08:13:42 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?vishwanath=20pargaonkar?= Subject: ifioctl To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org HI, i have freebsd 4.2 stable. i want to know how autoconfiguration feature of ipv6 gets enabled. as far as i know ifioctl will call if_up . if_up calls if_route and if_route calls in6_if_up which calls in6_ifattach which forms link local address. but how is ifioctl is initiated for a interface?? rgds vishwanath To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message