From owner-freebsd-net@freebsd.org Fri Jun 10 19:18:32 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FA0DAD97BD; Fri, 10 Jun 2016 19:18:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stdin@niklaas.eu) Received: from box-hlm-03.niklaas.eu (box-hlm-03.niklaas.eu [IPv6:2a02:2770:15:0:21a:4aff:feaa:e902]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C82B2F36; Fri, 10 Jun 2016 19:18:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stdin@niklaas.eu) Received: by box-hlm-03.niklaas.eu (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2AD46385569; Fri, 10 Jun 2016 21:18:28 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 21:18:28 +0200 From: Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: And what about ipv6_defaultrouter? Message-ID: <20160610191828.GE2817@box-hlm-03.niklaas.eu> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20160610065224.GB2817@box-hlm-03.niklaas.eu> <20160610071254.GC2817@box-hlm-03.niklaas.eu> <20160610.225031.1318863285679295699.hrs@allbsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="84ND8YJRMFlzkrP4" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160610.225031.1318863285679295699.hrs@allbsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 19:18:32 -0000 --84ND8YJRMFlzkrP4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hiroki Sato [2016-06-10 22:50 +0900] : > A router does not accept RAs (more strictly, default route > information in RA) because it is a sender of RAs. However, some > devices such as CPE need to behave like a host for the uplink and a > router for the LAN. In that case, an interface on the WAN side has > to accept RAs and one on the LAN side has to send RAs. >=20 > On FreeBSD, there is a knob to support it. Set the following > variable to rc.conf in addition to your current configuration: >=20 > ipv6_cpe_wanif=3D"vtnet0" Thanks a lot for pointing that out! I think I read about the variable somewhere but I was not sure what it actually does. Is there some place where I can find more detailed explanation about rc.conf and sysctl settings except man? > And, $rtsold_enable is not required unless you want to get DNS server > information from RAs. Okay, great. I did not know that. Very nice layout for writing emails by the way. Niklaas --84ND8YJRMFlzkrP4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXWxJ+AAoJEG2fODeJrIU/pOIP/AgLvNj8PLcWjmEZ8K6p8ToH WibPxiX71h62NIa2GCoYIcU8zzxq8vfjyvkWi6RbPLDhaynpgG34g76U7BognhKZ 2CxKt1Dw+ydcC/oNHkFyoW99SMlHTYRjeJWyOQ7jEKBAjbaJ3E5mwTMk7lsPO8MI RWTtx4r8HtvFup4mkGottkEj7D8AZfQlWdpLZVDPjV669V/tVIFXUUQD0CXf8Y8f kc79EDzwH44Cvm8endYypQT2BD57jzolP2gzj90Vm3U4fqi4Gj8veinnRDdLdUVW MxzgAkS1G6Or2ZzOo2GBfwc85xInnK4eINfJFaXfGPcEQtwH/FDvGOFbBEiNoDOu i40vehgfOEYf5ld4IF5L1h2cqyJfpKvYmsrfdX4Z4Jr5thoTFJ9iwmDUaGgSlixY pinXkQuSmKxBHpMClwVprIcAfp+ovBIFYeS+urXhmLSHBFjSp1JtrNz5LGbSwHL9 A8p3x85zGoStYYpjv4gVG8sjVr3AvmEOHkFD+fRpbCut/EJU74muj1PuCKEAt0R1 3yk4in5TqinMohz3VMzHYUG04V/szsmdl2GrkzRJYN2yFVYjQn6ZMtVGNXekBNjL FsZcqpBD7OKIOBDn7zNHHeLFhkEOFzh/fE3DVrpvwfVKiKRJubgQ7uV9k6tnj4T2 lVJa42PIIAWlSvw3rbOH =r8xT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --84ND8YJRMFlzkrP4--