if_bridge and IPv6

Hajimu UMEMOTO ume at mahoroba.org
Fri Mar 11 05:38:40 UTC 2011


Hi,

>>>>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:19:00 -0800
>>>>> Carl Johnson <carlj at peak.org> said:

carlj> You should be able to do something like the following:

carlj>   ifconfig bridge0 inet6 fe80:: eui64 add

carlj> That assumes that it has a MAC address already assigned.  I can't help
carlj> if it doesn't have one yet.

Unfortunately, eui64 option doesn't support link-local address.
You need to specify link-local address, explicitly.
Here is a patch to support it.

Sincerely,

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