On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, Doug Barton wrote:
Hi,
As we've previously discussed, I would like to un-obsolete ipv6_enable,
and return it to the status of being the knob that actually controls
whether or not we configure IPv6. My understanding is that the consensus
is in agreement with this change, however I'm posting my proposed patch
(minus the rc.conf(5) change) just in case. If you have any objection,
please speak up sooner rather than later.
I am not sure where the previous discussion happened anymore but I
veto to bring back ipv6_enable this way. It's not going to do what
you promise above.
It will be utterly confusing for people to have
ipv6_enable="NO"
ifconfig_if0_ipv6="inet6 2001:db8::1/64"
and find that IPv6 is still enabled and working on if0.
Further I can no longer find a way to say "accept rtadv messages on the
upstream interface but by default do not on any other of the
interfaces while still having IPv6 enabled" unless I configure an
ifconfig_ifN_ipv6="..." for all of them.
I would immediately vote for removing the backward stuff to cleanup
the code though.
/bz
--
Bjoern A. Zeeb It will not break if you know what you are doing.
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