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Date:      Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:11:55 +0530
From:      wahjava.ml@gmail.com (Ashish Shukla =?utf-8?B?4KSG4KS24KWA4KS3IA==?= =?utf-8?B?4KS24KWB4KSV4KWN4KSy?=)
To:        Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions ML <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Change in /etc/rc.conf:ipv6_defaultrouter
Message-ID:  <86tzfbbygs.fsf@chateau.d.lf>
In-Reply-To: <4867C3D0.9000001@strauser.com> (Kirk Strauser's message of "Sun,  29 Jun 2008 12:18:08 -0500")
References:  <DD1CEBD6-5885-4D79-863C-8BAC12E9352A@strauser.com> <86hcbc7042.fsf@chateau.d.lf> <4867C3D0.9000001@strauser.com>

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,--- Kirk Strauser writes:
| Ashish Shukla ???? ????? wrote:

|| |     ipv6_ifconfig_fxp0=3D"2001:470:a80a:1:2d0:b7ff:fe0e:3a4a prefixlen
|| | 64"
|| |     ipv6_defaultrouter=3D"fe80::213:10ff:fe79:137a"

|| I don't know how is above ipv6_defaultrouter setting is working, since
|| above is a link-local address, and you've not specified any explicit
|| link in above fe80::/10 address. BtW, did you recently changed your
|| configuration ? Is this same setting working since you started using
|| IPv6 on your FreeBSD host, hmm..?

| That configuration has been working, unchanged, for a few months
| now. Until recently it used the fxp0 interface, as evidenced by the
| fact that it actually worked.  :-)

|| Are you trying to ping6 a link-local address, without any mention of
|| interface, hmm...?

| Again, it worked.  If it hadn't, I would have kept messing with it
| until it did.   I host web and mail on that host's IPv6 address and
| was very keen in getting it up and running.

I think how without specifying zone index[1] in link-local address
worked, it is probably due to availability of only single inet6
interface except lo0.

Just wanted to confirm, is following command worked ? if possible paste
the output:

% ping6 fe80::213:10ff:fe79:137a

Reference:
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Zone_indices

Regards
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