Bill Fenner wrote:
>
> Bruce is right that machines expect to learn their prefixes from their
> local router; however if you're just playing around you might want to
> set it yourself. The easiest way I've found to do this is to say that
> this machine is a router:
>
> # sysctl -w net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1
> net.inet6.ip6.forwarding: 0 -> 1
>
> and then run "prefix" to set a site-local prefix:
>
> # prefix dc0 fec0:0:0:1::
> # ifconfig dc0
> dc0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet6 fe80::2a0:ccff:fe36:7410%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> inet6 fec0::1:2a0:ccff:fe36:7410 prefixlen 64
>
> Of course, if you have global address space too you can assign that prefix
> too.
>
Thanks Bruce and Bill!. I suspected something like this. I read
about IPv6 autoconfiguration, but since I am playing with site-local
addresses and I have no IPv6 router [yet], I wondered about how
to configure the IPv6 site-local address. Well, my problem is
solved, and now I understand IPv6 better.
Thanks again,
-- JMA
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