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Subject: Re: IPv6 accept_rtadv + bfe0
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On 10/19/2011 00:29, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> Mattia Rossi <mrossi@swin.edu.au> wrote
>   in <4E9DFE11.2070203@swin.edu.au>:
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> mr> So the _ipv6 bit doesn't take care of passing "inet6" to ifconfig
> mr> automatically?
> 
>  No.  You always need to add the inet6 keyword wherever needed.

That seems redundant, and contrary to how the IPv4 equivalents work. And
obviously it's confusing to users. From what I can see looking at some
7.x and 8.x systems it also seems to be a POLA violation.

Perhaps this is something that you should reconsider?


Doug

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