Small suggestion for IPv6 page
Wout Decré
wout at canodus.be
Sat Aug 3 16:09:29 UTC 2019
On Sat, 2019-08-03 at 08:34 -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> Greetings again. As always, thanks for the very clear documentation.
>
> handbook/network-ipv6.html does not say how to create aliases for
> IPv6
> addresses. I guessed:
> ifconfig_em1_ipv6_alias0="inet6 fd00::21:1:101/112"
> This was wrong. The following works:
> ifconfig_em1_alias0_ipv6="inet6 fd00::21:1:101/112"
>
I think the "_ipv6" suffix is not required, you could use:
ifconfig_em1_alias0="inet6 fd00::21:1:101/112"
Or, I usually define all my IPv4 and IPv6 aliases in one line:
ifconfig_em1_aliases="inet6 fd00::21:1:101/112"
See rc.conf(5) for more information.
> An example on handbook/network-ipv6.html would have prevented me
> from
> having to guess (and guess wrong, in my case).
>
> --Paul Hoffman
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