7.0 & Link-Local Addresses

2008-02-20 Thread James Snow
In 6.2-Rp7: 6.2-Rp7# uname -srm FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 i386 6.2-Rp7# ifconfig lo1 create 6.2-Rp7# ifconfig lo1 inet 169.254.1.1 netmask 255.255.0.0 6.2-Rp7# ping -c1 169.254.1.1 PING 169.254.1.1 (169.254.1.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 169.254.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.065 ms --- 169.254.1.

Re: 7.0 & Link-Local Addresses

2008-02-20 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
James Snow wrote: I'm trying to use link-local for the cross-over interface between a pair of FreeBSD boxes running pf, pfsync, and CARP. These firewalls will need to be able to route for the whole of RFC1918, and carving off a piece of that address space isn't an option. This seemed to be a pe