rc.conf inet6 confusion

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Sun, 4 Jul 2010, Randy Bush wrote:

> i386 9-current as of today
>
> /etc/rc.conf
>
>    network_interfaces="bge0 lo0"   # List of network interfaces (lo0 is loopback).
>    ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"   # default loopback device configuration.
>    ipv4_addrs_bge0="147.28.0.36/24 147.28.0.40/24"
>    ifconfig_bge0_ipv6="2001:418:1::36/64"

                        ^^ inet6 ^^

>    ifconfig_bge0_alias0="inet6 2001:418:1::40/64"
>
> which gets me
>
>    ifconfig: 2001:418:1::36/64: bad value (width too large)
>
> and
>
>    bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> 	    options=8009b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE>
> 	    ether 00:30:48:86:b7:5a
> 	    inet6 fe80::230:48ff:fe86:b75a%bge0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> 	    inet 147.28.0.36 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 147.28.0.255
> 	    inet 147.28.0.40 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 147.28.0.255
> 	    inet6 2001:418:1::40 prefixlen 64
> 	    nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> 	    media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
> 	    status: active
>
> clue bat, please
>
> randy
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