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Date:      Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:02:35 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   if_bridge and IPv6
Message-ID:  <FAF0B5E9-029E-4345-BFC4-98C0DFF505CC@gsoft.com.au>

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Hi,
I have a bridge interface with em0 and tap0/tap1 on it to run a layer 2 =
VPN.

I find that em0 gets an IPv6 link local address but bridge0 does not =
(via net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal). I did some googling and it seems =
that this is a deliberate policy decision, and unfortunately you can't =
change it on a per interface basis :)

It would be nice if I could suppress automatic link local for em0 and =
enable it on bridge0 rather than having to delete & add them manually.

Also, does anyone have a code snippet handy for generating link local =
addresses? My google-fu was unable to find a description..

Thanks :)

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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