Hi, one last question.

I am reading through lots of examples and documentation on OpenBSD and v6
and most seem to refer to adding the v6 address to /etc/hostname.X as an
'alias', e.g.;
inet 10.0.0.1 255.255.255.0
inet6 alias fec0:2029:f001:128::40 64

I have our test setup working now without the 'alias' directive, so should
it have an 'alias' or not?

I cannot see that it should, as its not an inet alias. The interface has
one inet, and one inet6.

If there were any additional inet or inet6 lines then those lines should
have the alias directive, but why should the first inet6 have an 'alias'
when it is not an alias address to the v4 address?

Sorry to obsess about the details on this but want to get this completely
correct in the eyes of the developers?

Cheers, Andy.



On Sun, 01 Sep 2013 13:55:27 +0100, Andy <a...@brandwatch.com> wrote:
> Hi Stuart, yea I realised that after, it's also implied I guess as its 
> using an IPv4 address after all.
> 
> I will probably remove it as I didn't need it for IPv4 before. I was 
> just trying everything I thought might be relevant to get it working 
> when the real problem was not setting up my test environment properly...
> 
> Considering the differences between v4 and v6 (ndp etc), would carppeer 
> be more useful for v6 (I know it is currently v4 only)?
> 
> I would prefer to not have to use carppeer as it is another thing to 
> manage and configure correctly, but my priority is stability and 
> speed(does it improve the speed of CARP setup/detection etc)?
> 
> Thanks for your help :) Andy
> 
> 
> On Sat 31 Aug 2013 23:25:12 BST, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>> On 2013-08-30, Andy <a...@brandwatch.com> wrote:
>>> cat /etc/hostname.carp0
>>> inet 18.2.32.10 255.255.255.0 18.2.32.255
>>> inet6 a00:7e0::a 64
>>> carpdev em0 carppeer 18.2.32.12 vhid 201 pass testpass advbase 3
advskew
>>> 0 description "WAN"
>>
>> hmm, I wonder if we should extended the description of carppeer in
>> ifconfig(8) to make it clear that it's only for v4...

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