Subject: Re: Making IPV6 go
To: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/22/1999 13:23:57
>> I have an arm32 box with the ipv6 stuff compiled in now. However, it doesn't
>> seem to interoperate with a linux box with their ipv6 mods.
>Apologies if this is obvious, it wasn't to me when I started. What I
>did was:
latest /etc/rc.conf includes easy setups for those. list of sysctls
you listed are correct.
>*) run rtsol on all the machines. This will set an alias address for
> the interfaces and setup a default route pointing to the router.
> I cheated and ran this on the router too. I didn't want to set the
> alias address by hand and have to duplicate the rtadvd.conf config
> line in a different file. I temporarily turned on accept_rtadv as such:
> sysctl -w net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv=1
> rtsol de1
> sysctl -w net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv=0
> (What is the "approved" way of doing this???)
Simply stated, routers need manual configuration. Routers are not
supposed to be auto-configured. I do not recomend the above
configuration on routers.
itojun