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On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 11:13:11PM -0700, Seemant Kulleen wrote: |
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> there's something which occurs to me -- in /etc/rc.conf there is a way to specify which protocols you allow. Do our net scripts already have ipv6 support, I wonder? or is that stuff in rc.conf for some other purpose? |
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I've never seen anything which actually sources rc.conf and uses the |
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PROTOCOL variable in any way. I have no idea why that's there. anybody |
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enlighten me? |
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Our current scripts (in the stable baselayout, not sure about ~arch) |
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lets you specify inet6_ethX in the /etc/conf.d/net file, and adds that |
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alias to the device. In reality, there are three different ways to |
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configure the IPv6 attributes of a device. First, you can configure |
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everything by hand. Setting an IP, default route, etc. IPv6 also |
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specificies the existance of autoconfiguration via "Router |
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Advertisement." This is basically a stateless, automatic "DHCP-like" |
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configuration. Thirdly, there is specification for a stateful |
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configuration using DHCPv6. |
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Our initscript *should* be made to account for all of these |
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possiblities. Doing this well might get a little messy though. |
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> -- |
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> Seemant Kulleen |
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> Developer and Project Co-ordinator, |
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Peter Johanson |
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