From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 22 12:40:37 2008 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 AC2D716A41A for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:40:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [IPv6:2001:4070:101:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD22D13C469 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:40:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m0MCcbZs002436; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:38:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) with ESMTP id m0MCcUX7002433; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:38:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:38:30 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Prabhu Hariharan In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20080122133735.P2408@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPv6 address persistent configuration thru ifconfig 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, 22 Jan 2008 12:40:37 -0000 > In host implementation, if I manually configure global ipv6 address via > ifconfig command then those addresses are not persistent after making the > interface DOWN and again UP, which is not the case for IPv4 addresses. Is > this an intentional behavior that all ipv6 address needs to be removed from > interface if it goes DOWN? I feel the configurations that have been made nothing gets removed [root@wojtek ~]# ifconfig fxp0 fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=8 inet6 fe80::2d0:59ff:febe:fadc%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 10.255.245.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.255.245.255 inet6 2001:4070:101:2::1 prefixlen 64 ether 00:d0:59:be:fa:dc media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier [root@wojtek ~]# ifconfig fxp0 down [root@wojtek ~]# ifconfig fxp0 fxp0: flags=8802 mtu 1500 options=8 inet6 fe80::2d0:59ff:febe:fadc%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 10.255.245.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.255.245.255 inet6 2001:4070:101:2::1 prefixlen 64 ether 00:d0:59:be:fa:dc media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier [root@wojtek ~]# ifconfig fxp0 up [root@wojtek ~]# ifconfig fxp0 fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=8 inet6 fe80::2d0:59ff:febe:fadc%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 10.255.245.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.255.245.255 inet6 2001:4070:101:2::1 prefixlen 64 ether 00:d0:59:be:fa:dc media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier > manually, needs to get unconfigured manually and not programatically. > > Regards, > Prabhu H > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >