ipv6 in FreeBSD 9

Marco Beishuizen mbeis at xs4all.nl
Sat Jan 14 17:41:31 UTC 2012


On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, the wise Yuri Pankov wrote:

>> In 8.2 ipv6 was enabled by adding ipv6_enable="YES" in rc.conf, and all
>> worked fine. In FreeBSD 9 that changed to
>> ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES". But now there are still some error
>> messages at boot time, and ipv6 doesn't seem to work correctly:
>>
>> ...
>> root: /etc/rc: WARNING: $ipv6_firewall_enable is not set properly - see
>> rc.conf(5).
>> root: /etc/rc: WARNING: $ipv6_enable is not set
>> properly - see rc.conf(5).
>> ...
>>
>> I do not use a static IP adress, but DHCP. Wat do I need to do more
>> to enable ipv6?
>
> This works for me:
>
> ifconfig_em0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv"
> ip6addrctl_policy="ipv6_prefer"
>
> No other IPv6-related settings done anywhere else.

No didn't work. Still the same error messages.

Marco

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