IPv6 accept_rtadv + bfe0

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Sat Oct 22 03:44:10 UTC 2011


On 10/19/2011 00:29, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> Mattia Rossi <mrossi at swin.edu.au> wrote
>   in <4E9DFE11.2070203 at swin.edu.au>:
> 
> mr> So the _ipv6 bit doesn't take care of passing "inet6" to ifconfig
> mr> automatically?
> 
>  No.  You always need to add the inet6 keyword wherever needed.

That seems redundant, and contrary to how the IPv4 equivalents work. And
obviously it's confusing to users. From what I can see looking at some
7.x and 8.x systems it also seems to be a POLA violation.

Perhaps this is something that you should reconsider?


Doug

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