On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:42 PM, M. Schulte <m-free...@fuglos.org> wrote:
> Hi! > > [First of all, I have posted this question already on the FreeBSD > forum -- so far without replies -- and now my hope is that the set of > subscribers here and those of the forum do not completely coincide.] > > I have installed FreeBSD 9.1 on my server (it's a virtualized qemu/kvm > environment, in case that matters) and during boot the following > messages appear: > > ntpd[766]: ntpd 4.2.4p5-a (1) > ntpd[767]: bind() fd 23, family AF_INET6, port 123, scope 2, addr > fe80::216:36ff:fe74:2076, mcast=0 flags=0x11 fails: Can't assign requested > address > ntpd[767]: unable to create socket on re0 (3) for > fe80::216:36ff:fe74:2076#123 > > This happens with a GENERIC kernel. I have not touched any IPv6 > related configuration after install, so everything should be in the > default state. Neither have I changed the ntp/ntpd configuration. > > Although I could find some threads where people were discussing the > same problem, none of the mentioned suggestions fixed this for me. > > In particular I tried setting > > ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="**YES" > > in rc.conf -- didn't fix the problem. > > According to ifconfig, my interfaces, re0 in particular, have IPv6 > addresses associated to them. So why would it fail that a process > tries to bind to it? Note that I'm rather unexperienced wrt IPv6. > > Would be great if somebody could give me a hint into the right > direction. Anybody else experiencing this? Thank you very much! > > ~ melanie > What is the address space is the address you are seeing on the interface? Is it is a link-local address or one assigned by the router, a static from rc.conf or DHCPv6? You should have two inet6 addresses, one is link-local (starts with "fe") and another should start with "2". There may be more than two. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
