Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:16:53 +0900 From: Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org> To: Matt Smith <matt.xtaz@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPv6 policy based source routing Message-ID: <ygewrjr13ei.wl%ume@mahoroba.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimZ7CWWnJMOECEFvjDUVWxqX94fqZg9pvQhiYPL@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=BOnUbfnmiqgaKj6jzyLjbKMedENbQBvYm_8Rj@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTimZ7CWWnJMOECEFvjDUVWxqX94fqZg9pvQhiYPL@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi,
>>>>> On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:37:20 +0000
>>>>> Matt Smith <matt.xtaz@gmail.com> said:
matt> I have been doing some more research into this and it appears the
matt> proper way to accomplish what I want is to set
matt> net.inet6.ip6.use_deprecated to 0 and then deprecate the IPv6 address
matt> on the gif0 interface by setting the preferred lifetime to zero. This
matt> apparently makes the source address selection algorithm choose the
matt> alternative address on vr0. I can do the first part but I can't figure
matt> out how to do the second part. Any ideas surrounding this?
matt> The windows command to do this is: "netsh interface ipv6 set address
matt> IP6Tunnel <client endpoint IP> preferredlifetime=0s" so I need a
matt> FreeBSD equivalent of this command. Does such a thing exist? I've had
matt> a quick search through the ifconfig man page etc but nothing jumps out
matt> at me.
It's Rule 3 of RFC 3484 which avoids deprecated addresses.
If this solves your problem, you can do it by the following command:
ifconfig gif0 inet6 <IPv6 ADDRESS> deprecated
Please note that you don't need to set net.inet6.ip6.use_deprecated to
0 for this purpose.
Sincerely,
--
Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan
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