Hi Brett On 24/04/2015 04:40, Brett Lymn wrote: > I am clearly doing something wrong here. I have a machine with a wired > ethernet connection that I have manually configured the ipv4 address > for, it appears to have an ipv6 address: > > wm0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > capabilities=7ff80<TSO4,IP4CSUM_Rx,IP4CSUM_Tx,TCP4CSUM_Rx> > > capabilities=7ff80<TCP4CSUM_Tx,UDP4CSUM_Rx,UDP4CSUM_Tx,TCP6CSUM_Rx> > capabilities=7ff80<TCP6CSUM_Tx,UDP6CSUM_Rx,UDP6CSUM_Tx,TSO6> > enabled=0 > ec_capabilities=7<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU> > ec_enabled=0 > address: 74:d0:2b:2b:89:bc > media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT > full-duplex,flowcontrol,rxpause,txpause) > status: active > inet 192.168.3.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.3.255 > inet6 fe80::76d0:2bff:fe2b:89bc%wm0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > > but I cannot seem to add a default route for ipv6 to point to my home > router. I know my ipv6 set up is ok because a laptop I configure using > dhcp works fine with ipv6 so it must be something I am not doing on the > wired machine. Any suggestions? Thanks.
DHCPv6 does not specify any default route or prefix. On NetBSD, DHCPv6 is only started when a RA is received with either the O or M flags set and even then you need to use dhcpcd(8) to get this working. Did your host receive a valid RA? Roy
