What is the rc.conf syntax for /etc/rc.d/ip6addrctl's "prefer_ipv4" option?

Glen Barber glen.j.barber at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 17:11:30 UTC 2011


On 7/28/11 6:12 AM, Terry Kennedy wrote:
>   I initially asked this over in networking in the FreeBSD forums, but it
> was suggested I ask here, since this seems to be where a bunch of discussion
> about this particular topic has appeared in the past.
> 
>   The system is 8-STABLE on amd64 of a week ago. Please look at my original
> post on the FreeBSD Forums: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=25340
> 
>   In brief, I've tried all of the following, one at a time, in rc.conf to
> no effect:
> 
> ip6addrctl_flags="prefer_ipv4"
> ip6addrctl_policy="prefer_ipv4"
> ipv6_prefer="NO"
> ip6addrctl="prefer_ipv4"
> 

Hi,

Have you also set ip6addrctl_enable="YES" ?

Regards,

-- 
Glen Barber


More information about the freebsd-rc mailing list