Announce IPv6 prefix without being IPv6 gateway?

[Lev Serebryakov]

On 23.04.2017 23:48, Alarig Le Lay wrote:

>>   I have Point-to-Point Ethernet connection one end of which FreeBSD 11, an
>>  other end is Windows. It is, really, patch-cord between tow systems, not a
>>  some tunnel, but physical Ethernet cards.
>>
>>   I want to announce IPv6 Prefix to Windows. FreeBSD system has other live
>>  interfaces and I don't want any routing performed by this system.
>>
>>   I have manual IPv6 address configuration on FreeBSD and rtadvd running on
>>  this "P2P" interface. But rtadvd complains:
>>
>> rtadvd[2663]: non-zero lifetime RA but net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=0. Ignored.
>>
>>  But I don't need IPv6 forwarding! I only want Prefix announcement to avoid
>> manual configuration of Windows host and virtual boxes on this host!
>>
>>  Is it possible to achieve such configuration?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Why don’t you announce your IPv6 range from your router?

 Because this network haven't router and traffic in this network must be
not routed anywhere, it is 10G connection between workstation (Windows)
and storage server (FreeBSD). Bith systems in question have another
connection to common routable network (1G) with router, announces (with
other prefix, of course), etc.


-- 
// Lev Serebryakov

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