>thank you for writing!
>My problem is that, when trying a tunnel between a Linux box to the
>FreeBSD box, in the Linux routing table, the nexthop address
>is fe80::8007:54. (here 8007:54 is in hexadecimal the IPv4 address of the
>FreeBSD box -or sit1 for Linux (endpoint of the tunnel).
>This is not a compatible address as you say, but is it possible to have
>this address on the FreeBSD box. I think its necessary for the tunnel.
it shouldn't really matter. but if you really care, remove
fe80::<whatever> you have and then add the new one.
# ifconfig gif0 up
# ifconfig gif0 inet6 fe80::<whatever> -alias
# ifconfig gif0 inet6 fe80::8007:54 prefixlen 64 alias
itojun
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