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Date:      Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:51:33 +0000 (UTC)
From:      "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
To:        Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD current mailing list <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Setting up IPv6 in /etc/rc.conf
Message-ID:  <20101015204947.N10185@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>
In-Reply-To: <E1P6qp8-0000zW-AE@groundzero.grondar.org>
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Mark Murray wrote:

> Alexey Shuvaev writes:
>>> gifconfig_gif0_ipv6="2001:1111:2222:3333::2 2001:1111:2222:3333::1 prefixlen 128"
>> 		     ^^^^		   ^^^^
>> I suppose you should prefix it with "inet6" keyword.
>> There are 2 examples in rc.conf (search for "Sample IPv6").
>
> Aaaaah!
>
> It didn't occur to me that I might need TWO inet6's! I'll give that a go when
> I play with this again tomorrow.

It's just one inet6; put there what you would pass to ifconfig on the
command line.  The fact that ifconfig defaults to "inet" is the
problem leading to more confusion.

I think the samples in defaults/rc.conf will be more clear soon.

/bz

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                              Welcome a new stage of life.



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