Specifying link-local address in rc.conf

Niclas Zeising zeising+freebsd at daemonic.se
Tue Jul 7 15:19:11 UTC 2020


On 2020-07-07 12:02, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd at daemonic.se> wrote
>    in <713e1f3e-4dd9-8dcf-c6d2-15c684bdce5b at daemonic.se>:
> 
> ze> Hi!
> ze> Is it possible to specify a link-local address in rc.conf, and get
> ze> only that link-local address?
> 
>   The following is a typical configuration if you want to disable
>   EUI-64 LLA:
> 
>    ifconfig_vtnet0="inet ...."
>    ifconfig_vtnet0_ipv6="inet6 -auto_linklocal"
>    ifconfig_vtnet0_alias0="inet6 fe80::1/64"
>    ifconfig_vtnet0_alias1="inet6 2001:6b8::1/64"
> 
>   Address family keyword is mandatory.  Most of address configurations
>   with no AF keyword are handled as expected, but some are not.

Hi!
This example does not work, it generates a EUI64 link-local address on 
vtnet0, and then adds the other IPv6 addresses.
It looks like anything that has ifconfig_vtnet0="inet ..." or even just 
"up" generates the link_local address.
Regards
-- 
Niclas


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