On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 03:00:18PM -0800, Marco S Hyman wrote:
> > but when i try to translate them into configure files, i run into a problem
> > with the hostname.gif file:
>
> Not surprising as the hostname.xxx files do NOT use ifconfig syntax.
> This seems to fool lots of people. Do not look at the ifconfig
> man page. Look at the hostname.if man page where it states the
> form for
>
> Regular IPv6 network setup:
>
> addr_family [alias] addr prefixlen options
>
> > but this one does not.
> > inet6 alias 2001:470:1f04:16f::2 2001:470:1f04:16f::1 prefixlen 128 <-
> > this line fails
>
> Because it doesn't follow the form. The 4th param should be the
> prefixlen, not the literal value "prefixlen". You've tried to put
> two different hostname.if commands into one bogus entry. You want
> this:
>
> inet6 alias 2001:470:1f04:16f::2 128
> dest 2001:470:1f04:16f::1
>
> (assuming I didn't get the addresses backwords)
>
actually i spotted this the other day, and think that there is a problem
with hostname.if(5). the line beginning "dest" is listed only for
"Regular IPv4 network setup:". as you've quoted, the description for
IPv6 does not show that a "dest" line is valid.
the description of "dest" itself is ambiguous regarding the issue.
so maybe the page should have:
Regular IPv4 network setup:
inet [alias] addr netmask broadcast_addr options
dest dest_addr
Regular IPv6 network setup:
inet6 [alias] addr prefixlen options
dest dest_addr
Other network setup:
addr_family options
dest dest_addr
(assuming the last is possible).
jmc
> Example: my hostname.gif0 looks like this:
>
> --------
> tunnel 208.201.244.208 208.201.234.221
> inet6 alias server-gif0 64
> inet6 alias 2001:05a8:0:1::0123 128
> dest 2001:05a8:0:1::0122
> ! route add -inet6 default ::1
> ! route change -inet6 default -ifp gif0
> --------
>
> where server-gif0 is an address from my /64 in /etc/hosts.
>
> // marc
