Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:00:00 -0400 From: "J. Hellenthal" <jhell@DataIX.net> To: Matt Smith <matt.xtaz@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPv6 policy based source routing Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103212253280.64958@qvfongpu.qngnvk.ybpny> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimZ7CWWnJMOECEFvjDUVWxqX94fqZg9pvQhiYPL@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=BOnUbfnmiqgaKj6jzyLjbKMedENbQBvYm_8Rj@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTimZ7CWWnJMOECEFvjDUVWxqX94fqZg9pvQhiYPL@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:37, matt.xtaz@ wrote: > On 15 March 2011 11:39, Matt Smith <matt.xtaz@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, I have a question about source routing I hope you can help me with. > > I have been doing some more research into this and it appears the > proper way to accomplish what I want is to set > net.inet6.ip6.use_deprecated to 0 and then deprecate the IPv6 address > on the gif0 interface by setting the preferred lifetime to zero. This > apparently makes the source address selection algorithm choose the > alternative address on vr0. I can do the first part but I can't figure > out how to do the second part. Any ideas surrounding this? > > The windows command to do this is: "netsh interface ipv6 set address > IP6Tunnel <client endpoint IP> preferredlifetime=0s" so I need a > FreeBSD equivalent of this command. Does such a thing exist? I've had > a quick search through the ifconfig man page etc but nothing jumps out > at me. > Hi Matt, Unofficially not sure if you have already checked into this so I am not sure if it is really a solution to your problem but may be a step forward. Check out the man page for ip6addrctl(8) that allows you to set a precedence for each prefix/route. The default output of ip6addrctl(8) can be dumped into /etc/ip6addrctl.conf where it will also be parsed and restored upon reboot. -- Regards, J. Hellenthal (0x89D8547E) JJH48-ARIN
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