Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:15:28 -0500 From: "Eric F Crist" <mnslinky@gmail.com> To: "Nikos Vassiliadis" <nvass@teledomenet.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPv6 Tunnel issues... Message-ID: <905f1be0703200815n323dc90rdc6515cb3dbafcbe@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200703201716.30476.nvass@teledomenet.gr> References: <905f1be0703200700s164832c4ybf5407d8be0df846@mail.gmail.com> <905f1be0703200758t1480971cr13f35bbeafd3227f@mail.gmail.com> <905f1be0703200801n7b9b5767o3e8308d4a045d98a@mail.gmail.com> <200703201716.30476.nvass@teledomenet.gr>
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On 3/20/07, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 March 2007 17:01, Eric F Crist wrote: > > On 3/20/07, Eric F Crist <mnslinky@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > My ISP tells me it should be prefixlen 126, not 128 > > > > > > On 3/20/07, Bj=F6rn K=F6nig <bjoern.koenig@alpha-tierchen.de > wrote: > > > > > > > > Eric F Crist schrieb: > > > > > [...] I'm performing the configuration as follows: > > > > > > > > > > ifconfig gif0 create > > > > > ifconfig gif0 tunnel <my IPv4 address> <my ISP IPv4 address> > > > > > ifconfig gif0 inet6 alias aaaa:aaaa:a::a bbbb:bbbb:b::b prefixlen > 126 > > > > > > > > > > When I execute the last command, I get: > > > > > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Invalid argument > > > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > Use a prefix length of 128 instead of 126. > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > Bj=F6rn > > > > > > > > Sorry for the top post earlier. I've eliminated the second IP address > on > > the inet6 ifconfig command, and prefixlen 126 is accepted. Now I just > get > > no ping replies accross the gif0 interface. ifconfig shows all the > correct > > information, and netstat -rn shows valid routes. What am I missing? I > > *did* have this working at one time this morning, but I tried to get > things > > into rc.conf and haven't been able to get it back up. > > There is an errata notice about gif(4)s, > don't know it affects you... > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/errata.html > Yes, I saw that, my first post mentions I'm patched and good-to-go. I've also tried the work around mentioned, just to be sure.
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