how do you bring IPv6 live without reboot?

[Bruce A. Mah]

If memory serves me right, George Michaelson wrote:
> on a 6-STABLE host, I added:
> 
> ipv6_enable="YES"              
> ipv6_network_interfaces="bge1"
> 
> to rc.conf, and ran /etc/rc.d/network_ipv6
> 
> this did not bring IPv6 live. rtsol reported problems with get_llflag()
> calls. However across reboot, the system came up with IPv6 fine.
> 
> Can somebody explain why this won't work if run after the init sequence
> has run to completion? What is the sequence of commands that when run
> on an active FreeBSD system causes it to successfully bind to IPv6?

Hrm.  You might also need to invoke /etc/rc.d/auto_linklocal before (I
think it's before?) network_ipv6.  This script was recently added
(during the 6.2 release cycle) as a part of mitigating some security
risks related to IPv6 link-local addresses.

Bruce.


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