nd6 change and rc.d/network_ipv6 -> rc.d/netif integration
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Mon Oct 5 18:25:24 UTC 2009
Hiroki Sato <hrs at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> John Hay <jhay at meraka.org.za> writes:
> > Is there a good reason why we still ship with ipv6 off by default?
> What do you mean by "off by default"? I think IPv6 is not disabled by
> default with the patch.
% ident /usr/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf
/usr/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf:
$FreeBSD: head/etc/defaults/rc.conf 197619 2009-09-29 16:49:10Z dougb $
% grep ipv6_network_interfaces /usr/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf
ipv6_network_interfaces="none" # List of IPv6 network interfaces
#ipv6_network_interfaces="ed0 ep0" # Examples for router
% grep ipv6_prefer /usr/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf
ipv6_prefer="NO" # Use IPv6 when both IPv4 and IPv6 can be used
Does mean that IPv6 is disabled by default? Who knows? There is no
coherent explanation *anywhere* of what these variables mean, and
rc.conf(5) does not mention them at all. In fact, the first hit for
"ipv6" in rc.conf(5) is this:
ipv6_enable
(bool) Enable support for IPv6 networking. Note that this
requires that the kernel has been compiled with options
INET6.
DES
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