Looping Hiroki Sato in since he's the architect of the most recent changes here.
Doug On 11/21/2011 12:11, Stefan Bethke wrote: > Am 21.11.2011 um 20:25 schrieb Dan The Man: > >> I notice we have changed way IPV6 is done in rc.conf now. >> I assume someone will update: >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ipv6.html >> >> My question now concerns aliases, and what the norm will end up being. >> Here is example below: >> Here we have the new layout with IPV6, the below works fine, however since >> the ifconfig lines for IPV4 and IPV6 are essentially the same other than the >> actual "inet" and "inet6", will it be ok to start with alias0 for both IPV4 >> and IPV6, or should I in this example be starting at alias4 for IPV6? >> I would like idea to keep it way it is each protocal starting at alias0. >> >> >> #GATEWAY >> defaultrouter="67.159.46.233" >> hostname="sunsaturn.com" >> #IPV4 >> ifconfig_em1="inet 67.159.46.238 netmask 255.255.255.248" >> ifconfig_em1_alias0="inet 67.159.46.234 netmask 255.255.255.248" >> ifconfig_em1_alias1="inet 67.159.46.235 netmask 255.255.255.248" >> ifconfig_em1_alias2="inet 67.159.46.236 netmask 255.255.255.248" >> ifconfig_em1_alias3="inet 67.159.46.237 netmask 255.255.255.248" >> >> #IPV6 >> ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" >> ipv6_network_interfaces="em1" >> ipv6_defaultrouter="2001:49f0:4004:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001" >> ifconfig_em1_ipv6="inet6 2001:49f0:4004:0000:0000:0000:0000:0002 prefixlen >> 48" >> ifconfig_em1_alias0="inet6 2001:49f0:4004:0000:0000:0000:0000:0003 prefixlen >> 48" >> ifconfig_em1_alias1="inet6 2001:49f0:4004:0000:0000:0000:0000:0004 prefixlen >> 48" > > Remember that rc.conf follows shell syntax and sematics, so the second > _alias0 and _alias1 will overwrite the previous ones. > > In 9.0 you can use the ipv4_addrs_<ifname> variable to set both the IPv4 > "main" address as well as "alias" addresses, see rc.conf(5). There doesn't > seem to be an equivalent IPv6 option, as best as I can tell. > > > Stefan _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
