On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > > > > Put ipv6_enable="YES" into your /etc/rc.conf > > > > Yeah but I need to reboot to have it work it's magic.. > > > > I'd like to know what goes on behind the mask. > > It works like this: > > If ipv6_enable="YES", then you have a "true" from > /etc/network.subr:ipv6if(), which is used in /etc/rc.d/auto_linklocal > to set the linklocal adress. > > Again, using a function from /etc/network.subr:network6_getladdr()
Yes but network6_getladdr only actually returns a result if there is already a link local address set. So presumably it must rely on the kernel to do so? I couldn't actually figure out what sets it originally and ended up rebooting the box :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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