Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 00:10:20 GMT From: Yoshikazu GOTO <goto@on-link.jp> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: conf/166770: We do not need the "ifdisabled" flag on gif Interface. Message-ID: <201204090010.q390AKbC058250@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201204090020.q390KFVT006216@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 166770 >Category: conf >Synopsis: We do not need the "ifdisabled" flag on gif Interface. >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Apr 09 00:20:15 UTC 2012 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Yoshikazu GOTO >Release: 9.0-STABLE >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD **** 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #0: Mon Apr 9 02:12:04 JST 2012 root@****:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL i386 >Description: I wrote the /etc/rc.conf file for IPv6 on 9-STABLE machine, as following: ---- ipv6_defaultrouter="-interface gif0" ifconfig_em0="inet <IPv4 address> netmask <Netmask>" ifconfig_em0_ipv6="inet6 <IPv6 address> prefixlen 64" gif_interfaces="gif0" gifconfig_gif0="<IPv4 address> <Destination IPv4 address>" ---- but I cannot send any IPv6 packets. >How-To-Repeat: gif0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1280 tunnel inet **** --> **** inet6 fe80::****%gif0 prefixlen 64 tentative scopeid 0x4 nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> options=1<ACCEPT_REV_ETHIP_VER> $ ping6 www.kame.net PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) **** --> 2001:200:dff:fff1:216:3eff:feb1: 44d7 ping6: sendmsg: Network is down ping6: wrote orange.kame.net 16 chars, ret=-1 ping6: sendmsg: Network is down ping6: wrote orange.kame.net 16 chars, ret=-1 ^C --- orange.kame.net ping6 statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss >Fix: So, I run a command "ifconfig gif0 inet6 -ifdisabled", I can send the IPv6 packets. Please add this command line to "gif_up()" function in /etc/network.subr file. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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