Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:38:30 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Prabhu Hariharan <prabhuh@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPv6 address persistent configuration thru ifconfig Message-ID: <20080122133735.P2408@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <dfdae4690801220407q73fc8eadwe461c473597ae754@mail.gmail.com> References: <dfdae4690801220407q73fc8eadwe461c473597ae754@mail.gmail.com>
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> In host implementation, if I manually configure global ipv6 address via
> ifconfig command then those addresses are not persistent after making the
> interface DOWN and again UP, which is not the case for IPv4 addresses. Is
> this an intentional behavior that all ipv6 address needs to be removed from
> interface if it goes DOWN? I feel the configurations that have been made
nothing gets removed
[root@wojtek ~]# ifconfig fxp0
fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=8<VLAN_MTU>
inet6 fe80::2d0:59ff:febe:fadc%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 10.255.245.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.255.245.255
inet6 2001:4070:101:2::1 prefixlen 64
ether 00:d0:59:be:fa:dc
media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
status: no carrier
[root@wojtek ~]# ifconfig fxp0 down
[root@wojtek ~]# ifconfig fxp0
fxp0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=8<VLAN_MTU>
inet6 fe80::2d0:59ff:febe:fadc%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 10.255.245.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.255.245.255
inet6 2001:4070:101:2::1 prefixlen 64
ether 00:d0:59:be:fa:dc
media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
status: no carrier
[root@wojtek ~]# ifconfig fxp0 up
[root@wojtek ~]# ifconfig fxp0
fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=8<VLAN_MTU>
inet6 fe80::2d0:59ff:febe:fadc%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 10.255.245.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.255.245.255
inet6 2001:4070:101:2::1 prefixlen 64
ether 00:d0:59:be:fa:dc
media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
status: no carrier
> manually, needs to get unconfigured manually and not programatically.
>
> Regards,
> Prabhu H
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