From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 16 12:04:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79F1C16A419 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:04:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 225C313C457 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:04:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-16-203.lns10.adl2.internode.on.net [121.45.16.203]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m1GC3rUc098455 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:33:54 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:33:33 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200802142112.m1ELCBoO083786@drugs.dv.isc.org> <200802151430.27026.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20080216065612.GC21775@home.c0mplx.org> In-Reply-To: <20080216065612.GC21775@home.c0mplx.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1601803.kVGCqqnjX8"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200802162233.47017.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.212 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Kurt Jaeger Subject: Re: Can't delete IPV6 addresses with ifconfig 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: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:04:03 -0000 --nextPart1601803.kVGCqqnjX8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > > > > Put ipv6_enable=3D"YES" into your /etc/rc.conf > > > > Yeah but I need to reboot to have it work it's magic.. > > > > I'd like to know what goes on behind the mask. > > It works like this: > > If ipv6_enable=3D"YES", then you have a "true" from > /etc/network.subr:ipv6if(), which is used in /etc/rc.d/auto_linklocal > to set the linklocal adress. > > Again, using a function from /etc/network.subr:network6_getladdr() Yes but network6_getladdr only actually returns a result if there is=20 already a link local address set. So presumably it must rely on the kernel to do so? I couldn't actually=20 figure out what sets it originally and ended up rebooting the box :( =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1601803.kVGCqqnjX8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHttEi5ZPcIHs/zowRAvTcAKCFNo8i/we9UbGGR8aYVOwue4biLACfSrO7 miDihrCNtIMPVPzIItEhHv0= =4bw9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1601803.kVGCqqnjX8--