FreeBSD ipv6 rc.conf settings issue

[Matthew Seaman]

Steve Bertrand wrote:

> Hmmm. This config does not work:
> 
> ifconfig_re0="inet 208.70.104.210 netmask 255.255.255.192"
> ifconfig_re0_alias0="inet 208.70.104.211 netmask 255.255.255.255"
> ifconfig_re0_alias1="inet6 2607:f118::b6 prefixlen 64"
> ifconfig_re0_alias2="inet6 2607:f118::b7 prefixlen 64"

Yep.  Try it like this:

ifconfig_re0="inet 208.70.104.210 netmask 255.255.255.192"
ifconfig_re0_alias0="inet 208.70.104.211 netmask 255.255.255.255"
ipv6_ifconfig_re0="2607:f118::b6 prefixlen 64"
ipv6_ifconfig_re0_alias0="2607:f118::b7 prefixlen 64"

or, even better, like this:

ipv4_addrs_re0="208.70.104.210/26 208.70.104.211/26"
ipv6_addrs_re0="2607:f118::b6/64 2607:f118::b7/64"

You can make the 2nd address in each case a /32 or /128 if you want,
but the requirement for having 2nd and subsequent addresses from a
netblock have a different netmask than the initial address on that NIC
has gone away.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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