From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 5 04:20:46 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CC2B106564A for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 04:20:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 65-241-43-4.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE72152FCB; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 04:20:46 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4E12911D.2060604@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:20:45 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Sinatra References: <4E127E18.6090509@FreeBSD.org> <4E128477.6030108@rancid.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <4E128477.6030108@rancid.berkeley.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: carp for IPv6? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 04:20:46 -0000 On 07/04/2011 20:26, Michael Sinatra wrote: > On 07/04/11 19:59, Doug Barton wrote: >> If I try to set up a carp interface for IPv6 on a recent 8.2-STABLE I >> get an error using either /64 or /128 as the mask: >> >> ifconfig carp2 vhid 4 advskew 0 pass mycleverpass 2001:a:b:c::2/64 >> >> ifconfig 2001:a:b:c::2/64: bad value (width too large) >> >> There are no examples for IPv6 in the man page, or the handbook; and I >> can't find any on line. I'm interested in configuration for the command >> line, and rc.conf. > > ifconfig_carp0="vhid 80 advskew 120 pass yomama 128.32.206.100/32" > ipv6_ifconfig_carp0="2607:f140:ffff:ffff::80/128" > > Works on 8.2-STABLE (June 7, 2011). > > Note that I cannot get carp to work properly without configuring an IPv4 > address. Well that sucks. :-/ In the example you gave, how would you add the IPv6 address on the command line to an existing carp interface? 'ifconfig carp0 inet6 2607:f140:ffff:ffff::80/128 alias' ?? Thanks for the response, Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/