ipv6 in FreeBSD 9

Erik Nørgaard norgaard at locolomo.org
Sun Jan 15 18:16:42 UTC 2012


On 14/01/2012 18:07, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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?

Don't use ipv6, but reading above: Did you replace ipv6_enable with 
ipv6_activate_all_interfaces? because the error seems to tell you that 
you must keep ipv6_enable

Or, maybe there was an error with mergemaster? old scripts, new kernel 
variables?

BR, Erik

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