Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 10:20:22PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > > Your approach is interesting, but I'm not sure I like the idea of adding a > > new semantic to the defaults file. > >=20 > > Would you consider instead modifying network6_interface_setup in > > network.subr to not automatically configure a plip interface if > > ipv6_ifconfig_plipN is unset or null? That would accomplish the same thin= > g, > > but it would be behind the scenes. > > That's a fairly significant change since there's no requirement to explicit= > ly > set an address for an IPv6 interface and this would suddenly require it. > It may be that the right thing to do with IPv6 interfaces is to require > that ipv6_ifconfig_ifn be set to something but that would be a change.
There's no need to require an address for IPv6 interfaces in general. All I would like to see is recognizing 'ipv6_ifconfig_<interface>="NOAUTO"', which certainly parallels the IPv4 situation. > In many ways I think the best thing to do is remove plip from GENERIC > and be done with it. > > -- Brooks I've discovered I omitted an important precondition to my bug: it requires ipv6_gateway_enable to be set to YES. So, here is the true set of circumstances which leads to the problem: ipv6_enable="YES" ipv6_gateway_enable="YES" GENERIC kernel Removing plip from GENERIC would definitely solve this problem. -- George Mitchell P.S. Speaking of IPv6 networking, could someone take a quick look at bug 102701, with my patch for an IPv6 ifconfig problem? _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
