If memory serves me right, Pete French wrote: >> 2) rtsol(8) is used to initiate stateless autoconfiguration. You might=20 >> want to try "rtsol -d interface". > > Aha... this does not work... > >> 3) Check the net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv sysctl. ipv6_enable should take=20 >> care of this. > > ...because this is 0 > > All of which appears to be because a spurious 'ipv6_gateway_enable="YES"' > has found it's way into my rc.conf due to cut-n-paste. Which is > interesting though, since even when I spotted it, it hadn;'t occurred > to me that it would prevent the auto configuration working.
Ah yes, I remember stumbling over this (or some similar problem) many years ago. Machines that are configured as routers/gateways, as well as multi-homed end-hosts, aren't supposed to use rtsol. Also, accept_rtadv is usually 0...I think that our IPv6 startup scripts toggle it to 1 just long enough to get a route advertisement and then set it back to 0. Bruce.
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