Hi, At work I have a FreeBSD machine that I use for various testing and I need to setup an IPv6 only LAN using this machine. To this end, I have a few questions.
1) How can I remove an address from an interface using ifconfig (or other utility)? That is, I want to remove all IPv6 addresses this system might already have (except of course the link-local address fe80) and create new ones the fly and I don't want to reboot every single time. 2) Second, how, exactly, does the prefix length figure into things. I am reading up on IPv6 using various sources such as RFC's and the Handbook and what it says about IPv6, but when I assigned an address of fec0/10 (mentioned in the handbook) I can't ping the other system I assigned the same address to. In the handbook, I noticed that it linked to RFC 3513 and in that RFC it specifies the following: Site-Local addresses have the following format: | 10 | | bits | 54 bits | 64 bits | +----------------+-------------------------+----------------------------+ |1111111011| subnet ID | interface ID | +----------------+-------------------------+----------------------------+ Which is fec0:<subnet>:<interface>
From the above, I'd assume that the prefix length should be /64. But this
is assuming that my understanding of the prefix length is correct in that it is synonimous with the subnet mask in IPv4. This is what I originally thought, but thought I might be incorrect when I read in the handbook that the prefix length for fec0 is /10. So, on my FreeBSD system I did this (after a reboot, which I'd really rather avoid): ifconfig sis0 inet6 fec0:1:1:1::1/10 I can ping this address but not the other system I configured like this with fec0:1:1:1::2/10. So, where is my error in IPv6? Second, how do I remove previous IP addresses from an interface with rebooting? Andy _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"