From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 30 17:52:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hood.tvd.be (hood.tvd.be [195.162.196.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BCE837B401 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:52:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wvhemel@vub.ac.be) Received: from cocaine.cryolabs.net (cable-213-132-151-176.upc.chello.be [213.132.151.176]) by hood.tvd.be (8.9.3/8.9.3/RELAY-1.1) with ESMTP id CAA13348; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 02:04:53 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 02:04:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Wouter Van Hemel To: Rogier Steehouder Cc: Subject: Re: [FBSD-Q] ipv6 route configuration In-Reply-To: <20010830190401.A500@rhosgobel.net> Message-ID: PGP: 0B B4 BC 28 53 62 FE 94 6A 57 EE B8 A6 E2 1B E4 (0xAA5412F0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Rogier Steehouder wrote: > On Wednesday 29-08-29 22:22:22, Wouter Van Hemel wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Rogier Steehouder wrote: > > > On Wednesday 29-08-29 17:06:08, Wouter Van Hemel wrote: > > > > > 2) how do I send the full /48 class to the internal net, using ::1 for the > > > > router itself - like my ipv4 internal net? > > > > > > As far as I can remember (it has been nearly a year) I used the same > > > 'route' line, but using the internal nic instead of lo0. > > > > > > > That's what's been bugging me all along. Why lo0 and not ed1. Maybe it has > > something to do with looping. > > > > > I set both sysctl variables to 1 and let both router and other PC's figure > > > out their IPv6 addresses on their own. They will most certainly not be > > > ...::1, ...::2, etc. > > > > > > You can also manually configure IPv6 addresses on all hosts. > > > > > > > And that would be with just 'ifconfig ed0 inet6 their_ip', right? > > I would add a prefixlen 64 to be sure. > Sure, just being brief for simplicity :) > > > Make sure of your firewall (ip6fw) if you use it. Especially using > > > autoconfiguration. An IPv6 fw needs much more thought than an IPv4 fw. > > > > > > > Sure, after I made it work. That won't be such a problem. > > At least check the default "deny all from any to any" isn't intercepting > router advertisements and neighbor discovery, because that would hurt. > This isn't an issue when using static (manual) routes, is it? > I blocked neighbor discovery at first. After installing the fw, after > several seconds, connections would cease. Not recognising neighbors > results in removal from the routing table -> no transfer of packets. > > Took my three days to find that because the connections fail after seconds, > not immediately after setting the firewall. > Ah, that one's good to know. Making mental notes right now :) > with kind regards, Rogier Steehouder > Regards, . . . . . w o u t e r . . . o . . . , /\ __=__/`\______________________________ __o _/ . ` . \_ _=_ o// O\ | w o u t e r v a n h e m e l | <\o/\ P `| |_ . h t t p : / / w w w . i n s o m n i a . c x / . _| O _\ |\ \_________________________________o________\o_________/ <'> /O^ |()o _O\ . l a v i e e n m o u v e m e n t |`\ >> \\ << . . . . . . . . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message