IPv6 and CARP

[Doug Barton]

Looping in hrs@ since he's responsible for that area.


On 03/03/2012 02:49, Attila Nagy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On a recently built stable/9 I have these lines in rc.conf:
> ifconfig_em0_name="admin"
> vlans_admin="pub"
> create_args_pub="vlan 20"
> ifconfig_admin="inet 192.168.2.20 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> ifconfig_pub="inet 1.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.224"
> ifconfig_pub_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv"
> ifconfig_carp0="vhid 1 pass beef 1.1.1.2/27"
> ifconfig_carp0_ipv6="inet6 2001::beef/64"
> 
> When the machine boots up, it has every interfaces configured with the
> right addresses, except carp0, which has the IPv4, but no the IPv6 address.
> However if I specify:
> ifconfig carp0 inet6 2001::beef/64
> carp0 gets the IPv6 address and I get
> carp0: 2 link states coalesced
> log entry.
> 
> What is the problem with the above configuration, why doesn't carp0 get
> the IPv6 address during boot?

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