DigitalOcean offers VMs with FreeBSD!

[Marcin Cieslak]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2015, Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote:

> Bernhard Fröhlich <decke at bluelife.at> wrote:
> 
> I don't know what's unusual with the DO virtualisation, but vultr just
> works like a normal server (though they do restrict to virtio devices
> where applicable rather than emulated harware)

They use Avahi for autodisovery of the IPv4 "link layer" address
to further boostrap the configuration. Unfortuately avahi-autoipd
seems to needs lots of dependencies, including gobject-introspection.

bsd-cloudinit is written in Python and they use it to get a proper
IPv4 addresses. This configuration gets sucked into rc.

On Fri, 16 Jan 2015, Nikolay Denev wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 7:13 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Beware that they (DO) do not at all grok ipv6.  They hand out /124s, or
> > something equally silly.
> >
> 
> My DO instance has /64 and I have no problems with using ipv6 to login.

It's /64 formally here, but I am told only to use 16 (sixteen) addresses
xxxx:2000 ... xxxx:200f

Sounds like neighbour discovery scalability issues?

//Marcin