On Wednesday, 19 April 2017 14:22:32 -04 Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 11:16:44AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> > > Give a try to ifconfig as regarde privacy policy lifetime : pltime &
> > > vltime if i'm still right. You can also preset this two counters using
> > > the same command.>
> > ??? Sorry, but I don't understand this first sentence.
> >
> > I would like to see the address lifetime, which address is preferred,
> > which is deprecated, etc. On Linux a simple command like "ip a s" shows.
> As quoted above, ifconfig is your friend:
>
> [Wed Apr 19 14:19:35] peter@elke:~$ ifconfig iwm0
> iwm0: flags=208943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,AUTOCONF6>
> mtu 1500 lladdr a0:a8:cd:63:ab:b9
> index 1 priority 4 llprio 3
> groups: wlan egress
> media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (HT-MCS4 mode 11n)
> status: active
> ieee80211: nwid we_collect_all_your_nasty-bits5 chan 36 bssid
> e0:3f:49:23:bb:2c 29% wpakey <not displayed> wpaprotos wpa2 wpaakms psk
> wpaciphers ccmp wpagroupcipher ccmp inet6 fe80::a2a8:cdff:fe63:abb9%iwm0
> prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 192.168.103.126 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast
> 192.168.103.255 inet6 2001:470:28:658:a2a8:cdff:fe63:abb9 prefixlen 64
> autoconf pltime 604759 vltime 2591959 inet6
> 2001:470:28:658:54c6:1b6f:ee43:32b9 prefixlen 64 deprecated autoconf
> autoconfprivacy pltime 0 vltime 444443 inet6
> 2001:470:28:658:9039:71e4:30e2:a37e prefixlen 64 autoconf autoconfprivacy
> pltime 11955 vltime 530703
>
> That's output from my laptop just now, with autoconfigured inet6 addresses.
> I believe the pltime and vltime values are given in seconds.
can it be that ifconfig outputs pltime and vltime only if the values are set
but not in the case that they are forever? Or are the values not shown or in
case of using virtual interfaces? The man page does not say.
I'm asking because :
$ doas ifconfig
[snip re0 and re1]
vether0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr fe:e1:ba:d0:52:8d
index 8 priority 0 llprio 3
groups: vether
media: Ethernet autoselect
status: active
inet 192.168.12.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.12.255
inet6 fe80::fce1:baff:fed0:528d%vether0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
inet6 2001:470:1f0b:ca9::1 prefixlen 64
bridge0: flags=41<UP,RUNNING>
index 9 llprio 3
groups: bridge
priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp
vether0 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
port 8 ifpriority 0 ifcost 0
athn0 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
port 4 ifpriority 0 ifcost 0
re2 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
port 3 ifpriority 0 ifcost 0
[snip]
pflog0: flags=141<UP,RUNNING,PROMISC> mtu 33144
index 12 priority 0 llprio 3
groups: pflog
gif0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
index 13 priority 0 llprio 3
groups: gif egress
tunnel: inet 181.121.5.112 -> 216.66.80.30
inet6 fe80::20d:b9ff:fe41:2214%gif0 -> prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xd
inet6 2001:470:1f0a:ca8::2 -> 2001:470:1f0a:ca8::1 prefixlen 128
Greetings
Eike
