nd6 change and rc.d/network_ipv6 -> rc.d/netif integration

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Tue Oct 6 08:26:13 UTC 2009


Hiroki Sato <hrs at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > If I install FreeBSD from a release CD and use the GENERIC kernel
> > and do *not* want to use IPv6, what do I do?
>  It depends on the definition of "use", but the answer is "do not put
>  any $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 or $ipv6_prefer to your rc.conf".  If so, IPv6
>  will be "disabled" (including communication using link-local
>  addresses) on all of interfaces except lo0.  It is the default
>  behavior now.
>
>  I do not think this means "IPv6 is disabled by default".

Close enough from my POV...  thanks.

Network configuration is complicated enough that I think we should have
a separate man page for it; rc.conf is pretty much useless unless you
already know what you're looking for.

DES
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