IPv6 Source Address Selection in 9.x

Mark Kamichoff prox at prolixium.com
Mon Oct 14 21:12:47 UTC 2013


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 06:07:54AM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> pr> It's my understanding that by leaving ip6addrctl_policy as AUTO will
> pr> only prefer IPv6 if ipv6_enable_all_interfaces is set to YES, which it
> pr> is in my /etc/rc.conf.  However, it appears that this never resulted in
> pr> ip6addrctl_prefer_ipv6 being called from /etc/rc.d/ip6addrctl.  Maybe
> pr> I'm reading this wrong ...
> 
>  It is ipv6_activate_all_interfaces, not ipv6_enable_all_interfaces.
>  If YES, AUTO (the default value) will set it as ipv6_prefer
>  automatically.

Ah, indeed.  I read the two variables as one.  Thanks!

- Mark

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