Changes in IPv6 Configuration

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote:

Hi,

> On Sunday 13 September 2009 18:58:02 Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>> On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> 	With the recent changes to /etc/rc.d for network start-up. I was
>>> wondering what is now correct. The previously working ipv6 configuration
>>> no longer creates a static default route, and I have not been able to
>>> figure out why. After boot, if I manually add the default route for ipv6,
>>> all works OK but I must be missing something to make it happen
>>> automatically. Currently, I have this in my /etc/rc.conf and this does
>>> not work. Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> ipv6_prefer="YES"
>>> ifconfig_re0_ipv6="inet6 2001:4d48:ad51:32:21d:7dff:fe07:241a prefixlen
>>> 64" ipv6_defaultrouter="2001:4d48:ad51:32::3"
>>> ipv6_network_interfaces="auto"
>>> ipv6_default_interface="re0"
>>
>> can you try this change (just pasted in):
>>
>> Index: etc/rc.d/routing
>> ===================================================================
>> --- etc/rc.d/routing    (revision 197153)
>> +++ etc/rc.d/routing    (working copy)
>> @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
>>          if [ -n "${ipv6_static_routes}" ]; then
>>                  for i in ${ipv6_static_routes}; do
>>                          ipv6_route_args=`get_if_var $i ipv6_route_IF`
>> -                       route ${_action} -inet6 ${route_args}
>> +                       route ${_action} -inet6 ${ipv6_route_args}
>>                  done
>>          fi
>>
>>
>>
>> /bz
>>
>
> 	Thank you very much. That change did work and now the IPv6 default gateway
> is being added to the route table on start-up.


Thanks a lot for reporting and testing. I just comitted the
correction.

/bz

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