Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 09:41:00 +0900 From: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh <itojun@iijlab.net> To: Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDi IPv6 (was: Re: Can we just come to a decision on IPv6 and IPSec?) Message-ID: <17086.912818460@coconut.itojun.org> In-Reply-To: enkhyl's message of Fri, 04 Dec 1998 14:42:15 PST. <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812041440100.393-100000@ender.sf.scient.com>
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>> For the rest the set-up and configuring was a breeze just when it came to >> userland tool flags it's confusing to use -ipv6 one time and -ip6 the next. >> Hope this sort of thing can be avoided or standardized under FreeBSD... >I think the goal is transparency to the user, i.e., use IPv6 when possible >and IPv4 when necessary. Although, there will probably be cases where >people will want to make this selection manually. ifconfig, route and other maintenance commands needs "-inet6" flag, like: # ifconfig ed0 inet 10.1.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 ~~~~ this is assumed so you usually don't use this # ifconfig ed0 inet6 3ffe:0501:4819:ffff:1:2:3:4 prefixlen 64 alias Also we sometimes need such flag to force IPv4 (or v6) adderss is used. For example: # ssh localhost (v4, or v6 - I don't care) # ssh -4 localhost (v4) # ssh -6 localhost (v4) # ssh 127.0.0.1 (v4 too) # ssh ::1 (v6) I agree that options should be standardized among userland tools. KAME is trying to use "-inet6", "inet6" or "-6" for this. itojun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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