Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:00:44 -0800 (PST) From: "Eugene M. Kim" <ab@astralblue.com> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> Cc: jose@we.lc.ehu.es, FreeBSD-current Mailing List <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, 6bone@isi.edu Subject: Re: IPv6: can a link-site (or global) address be configured in rc.conf? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0003060855230.52983-100000@home.astralblue.com> In-Reply-To: <200003061628.IAA19733@windsor.research.att.com>
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(Cc'ed to the 6BONE mailing list in the hope that someone there could answer my question as well) Speaking of the address allocation, is there a way for an individual to get a non-local address space (so that all of my machines can get an unique IPv6 address)? I've read through the 6BONE website, and it seems to me that I somehow have to `qualify' in order to get one. (And the fact that I just need <10 addresses makes me feel guilty; AFAIK the minimum allocation unit is 2^64-address block :-p.) Thank you in advance, Eugene On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Bill Fenner wrote: | Bruce is right that machines expect to learn their prefixes from their | local router; however if you're just playing around you might want to | set it yourself. The easiest way I've found to do this is to say that | this machine is a router: | | # sysctl -w net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1 | net.inet6.ip6.forwarding: 0 -> 1 | | and then run "prefix" to set a site-local prefix: | | # prefix dc0 fec0:0:0:1:: | # ifconfig dc0 | dc0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 | inet6 fe80::2a0:ccff:fe36:7410%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 | inet6 fec0::1:2a0:ccff:fe36:7410 prefixlen 64 | | Of course, if you have global address space too you can assign that prefix | too. | | Bill -- Eugene M. Kim <ab@astralblue.com> "Is your music unpopular? Make it popular; make music which people like, or make people who like your music." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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