ipv6 receive via rtadvd

[Hiroki Sato]

"Vladislav V. Prodan" <universite at ukr.net> wrote
  in <4DD96EA4.4080504 at ukr.net>:

un> Why host for so long waiting for ipv6 addresses?
un> To get faster, it is necessary or server restarted rtadvd or on host
un> repeatedly triggering "ndp -i em1"
un>
un> Perhaps we need to explicitly specify some other options rtadvd?
un>
un> server:
un> FreeBSD mary-teresa 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0: Wed Apr 20
un> 03:20:47 EEST 2011
un> vlad11 at beastie.mydomain.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/otrada.1 amd64
un>
un> # cat /etc/rc.conf | grep rta
un> rtadvd_enable="YES"
un> rtadvd_interfaces="re0"
un>
un>
un> host:
un> FreeBSD vm1.local 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0: Sun May 22
un> 02:05:47 EEST 2011 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/virtualbox.1 amd64
un>
un> # cat /etc/rc.conf | grep em1
un> ifconfig_em1="DHCP"
un> ifconfig_em1_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv"

 All you need in rc.conf on 8.x is ipv6_enable="YES" instead of
 $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 for SLAAC ($ifconfig_IF_ipv6 should be noop on
 8.x).  The rtsol utility will be invoked and it should make the
 automatic address configuration faster.

-- Hiroki
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